On Mon, 27 Apr 2015 17:27:07 -0400 J William Piggott <elseifthen@xxxxxxx> wrote: > I do not understand what this patch accomplishes. stdout is line > buffered. All of hwclock -c output ends with \n, which flushes > the buffer. Then we flush it again with fflush? What am I missing? stdout is line buffered only if it is not redirected. Using the pipe symbol in shell to redirect the output i.e. to awk results in not flushing the buffer until it's full. A quick test: $ hwclock -c | cat Regards, Alexey -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
