Subject: Re: bug#8961: stdbuf has no effect on some programs

From: Bruno Haible <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 01:50:14 +0200

Pádraig Brady wrote:
> In fact iconv seems to buffer for ever and so it not scalable,
> as demonstrated with this consuming all of memory:
> 
>   yes | iconv

Indeed, yes. It would be a good idea to file a glibc bug report about it.

Bruno
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