On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 7:49 PM, David Engster <d...@randomsample.de> wrote: > Kris Maglione writes: >> I'm releasing wmii 3.9.1, mainly to deal with bugs which have cropped >> up in the latest glibc and dash releases, breaking wmiir and wmiirc >> respectively. > > Thank you. > > I noticed a problem on a machine at work running Ubuntu, essentially due > to this construction in the event loop: > > wmiir read /event | awk '/./ { print; fflush() } END { print "" }' > > It seems Ubuntu installs 'mawk' for providing 'awk', which by default > buffers its input, so the above won't do anything. Ubuntu users will > have to install 'original-awk' and symlink/rename that to awk, or - even > worse - use some obscure '-W interactive' option from mawk in the above > line.
This is so sad, mawk is a disgrace, and there is no lack of much better alternatives (like the *real* awk by BWK). One more reason to stick with 9base/p9p and avoid the lunix luserspace like the plague. uriel > Please don't flame me, I'm just the messenger... > > -David > > >