GNU bug report logs - #8961
stdbuf has no effect on some programs

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Bruno Haible <bruno <at> clisp.org>

Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2011 21:00:03 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #22 received at 8961 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Bruno Haible <bruno <at> clisp.org>
To: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigbrady.com>
Cc: 8961 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#8961: stdbuf has no effect on some programs
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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