Re: sed -u option

[christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

On Jun 15,  1:10pm, david%l8s.co.uk@localhost (David Laight) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: sed -u option

| On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 01:08:39AM +0000, Christos Zoulas wrote:
| > In article <20140613.040312.453264829.yyamano%kt.rim.or.jp@localhost>,
| > Yuji Yamano  <yyamano%kt.rim.or.jp@localhost> wrote:
| > >Hi!
| > >
| > >I just found our sed supports -l option.
| > >How about adding -u option for GNU and OpenBSD compatibility?
| > 
| > OpenBSD:
| > -u
| > Force output to be line buffered, printing each line as it
| > becomes available.  By default, output is line buffered when
| > standard output is a terminal and block buffered otherwise.  See
| > setbuf(3) for a more detailed explanation.
| 
| I wonder if it would be better to get the shell to generate a pipe
| that will force line buffering?

No need, that part is in the source already.

christos