On 2010-09-29 10:49, Theo de Raadt wrote: > Perhaps a posix weenie can look into making hexdump use setvbuf and > adjusting the read requirements for fread() when the length (-n > argument) is specified as being short of the blocksize.
How about this weenie? Index: display.c =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/src/usr.bin/hexdump/display.c,v retrieving revision 1.18 diff -u -p -r1.18 display.c --- display.c 27 Oct 2009 23:59:39 -0000 1.18 +++ display.c 29 Sep 2010 15:03:11 -0000 @@ -300,6 +300,8 @@ next(char **argv) ++_argv; continue; } + if (length > 0 && length < BUFSIZ) + setvbuf(stdin, NULL, _IONBF, 0); statok = done = 1; } else { if (done++) -- NAT64/DNS64 open-source --> http://ecdysis.viagenie.ca STUN/TURN server --> http://numb.viagenie.ca vCard 4.0 --> http://www.vcarddav.org