Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!mailrus!ames!umd5!brl-adm!cmcl2!phri!roy From: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: Stdio buffering question Message-ID: <3349@phri.UUCP> Date: 12 Jun 88 13:58:52 GMT References: <16124@brl-adm.ARPA> <4999@super.upenn.edu> <8076@brl-smoke.ARPA> Reply-To: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) Distribution: na Organization: Public Health Research Inst. (NY, NY) Lines: 19 gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) ) writes: > I won't accuse [csh] of directing standard error output into pipes. > Indeed I think you'd have to work fairly hard to get it to do so. Depends on what you call "fairly hard"; "foo |& bar" does the trick. > someone thought it would improve network performance for error output to > be sent in large chunks rather than a character at a time. Any system which produces so much error output that you have to worry about how efficiently the error messages are delivered is getting far too many errors. Better you spend you time figuring out how to fix the system than deliver the error messages faster. -- Roy Smith, System Administrator Public Health Research Institute 455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016 {allegra,philabs,cmcl2,rutgers}!phri!roy -or- phri!roy@uunet.uu.net