Re: Clogged pipe?

On 4/6/23 12:04 PM, Christian Weisgerber wrote:
> Pete Wright:
>
>>> What actually fixes the buffering problem on FreeBSD (it already works fine
>>> on Linux) is to add the -u flag to the cat command.
>> Jan Schaumann had a great blog post on pipes buffer sizes a while back
>> that may be interesting:
>> https://www.netmeister.org/blog/ipcbufs.html
> That is an entirely different issue.  Your problem was due to
> buffering in libc's stdio implementation.  Again: See the DESCRIPTION
> section of setbuf(3) for a terse summary.
>

I'm a different Pete than the OP, but considering the general confusion 
around this thought it would be a helpful article.

<shrug>

-p