Was "stdbuf feature request - line buffering but for null-terminated data"
See below. On Sun, Mar 10, 2024 at 5:38 AM Pádraig Brady <p...@draigbrady.com> wrote: > > On 09/03/2024 16:30, Zachary Santer wrote: > > 'stdbuf --output=L' will line-buffer the command's output stream. > > Pretty useful, but that's looking for newlines. Filenames should be > > passed between utilities in a null-terminated fashion, because the > > null byte is the only byte that can't appear within one. > > > > If I want to buffer output data on null bytes, the closest I can get > > is 'stdbuf --output=0', which doesn't buffer at all. This is pretty > > inefficient. > > > > 0 means unbuffered, and Z is already taken for, I guess, zebibytes. > > --output=N, then? > > > > Would this require a change to libc implementations, or is it possible now? > > This does seem like useful functionality, > but it would require support for libc implementations first. > > cheers, > Pádraig
