On Sun, 3 Aug 2008, Anders Melchiorsen wrote: > > Normally, stdout is fully buffered, unless it refers to a terminal > device. This gives problems when fork() is in play: the buffer is > cloned and output appears twice. > > By always setting stdout to line buffering, we make the output work > identically for all output devices. Please don't. This is a huge peformance issue for things like git log -p > file where we really want it to be fully buffered. So please just find the place where we do a fork() without flushing pending output... (We really shouldn't have all that many "fork()" calls left, I thought - the Windows stuff means that most of it should be abstracted away. So it's not like we're talking about hundreds of sites, there should be just a couple). Linus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
