On 29/06/11 21:59, Bruno Haible wrote: > Hi, > > The glibc 'iconv' program buffers its input, and some people don't like this. > I thought that the 'stdbuf' program could remove the buffering, but it does > not > work.
The following shows I think that iconv is bypassing stdio and buffering internally? (echo; sleep 3; echo) | ltrace iconv -f ASCII The stdbuf man page notes that: NOTE: If COMMAND adjusts the buffering of its standard streams (`tee' does for e.g.) then that will override corresponding settings changed by `stdbuf'. Also some filters (like `dd' and `cat' etc.) don't use streams for I/O, and are thus unaffected by `stdbuf' settings. cheers, Pádraig.
