Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.
** Changed in: eglibc (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Confirmed
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1568726
Title:
iconv stdio buffering
Status in eglibc package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Bug description:
Tool "iconv" suffers from the stdio buffering problem described here:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14472179/how-do-i-perform-a-
streaming-character-conversion
Basically, when piping to iconv in an interactive session, output
stutters. Tool "stdbuf" does not help. From the page above: "But it
looks like iconv is managing the buffering internally itself - it's
nothing to do with the Linux pipe buffer."
Solutions are described in this page:
http://www.pixelbeat.org/programming/stdio_buffering/
iconv should have a command-line switch to help. From the page above:
"Note tail's stdout buffer would also have this problem, but tail -f calls
fflush
on the stdout stream when new data is received to alleviate this
(as do tcpdump -l, grep --line-buffered and sed --unbuffered for example)."
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