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From: haral@unisol.UUCP (Haral Tsitsivas)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: force the writer of a pipe to use unbuffered I/O?
Message-ID: <306@unisol.UUCP>
Date: 20 Mar 90 05:16:08 GMT
Reply-To: haral@unisol.UUCP (Haral Tsitsivas)
Organization: UniSolutions Associates, Redondo Beach, CA
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Is there a way to force the writer of a pipe to use unbuffered I/O 
if you don't have source for it (so you can't use setbuf and recompile it)
for System V?

I want to execute a command and monitor it's output but I don't want 
to wait for the buffer to fill up before I get anything to read...

--Haral Tsitsivas
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