GNU bug report logs - #44941
28.0.50; M-x grep, perhaps all asynch subprocesses

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: rms <at> gnu.org

Date: Sun, 29 Nov 2020 05:23:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: notabug, unreproducible

Found in version 28.0.50

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #35 received at 44941 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 44941 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, rms <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#44941: 28.0.50; M-x grep, perhaps all asynch subprocesses
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2020 16:47:28 +0100

On Nov 30 2020, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>> From: Richard Stallman <rms <at> gnu.org>
>> Cc: 44941 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
>> Date: Sun, 29 Nov 2020 23:46:22 -0500
>> 
>> Here is the cgrep script:
>> 
>> #!/bin/bash
>> 
>> grep -a "$@" | cut -c -200
>> 
>> cut seems to be responsible for the problem by buffering output even to a tty.
>
> Sounds like a useful feature to ask Grep developers to add it.

That feature already exists: stdbuf.

Andreas.

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