Fix "Script started" buffering race

script -c "echo Hallo World" </dev/null >script.log ; cat script.log

Before:
Hallo World
Script started, file is typescript
Script started, file is typescript
Script done, file is typescript

After:
Script started, file is typescript
Hallo World
Script done, file is typescript

diff --git a/term-utils/script.c b/term-utils/script.c
index 548334cbc23a25bbff5729151bcd559123eeedc0..02ba5965db6b1d74a2cae82c60ce8ee09cbf30c9 100644 (file)
--- a/term-utils/script.c
+++ b/term-utils/script.c
@@ -269,6 +269,7 @@ main(int argc, char **argv) {
        sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, NULL, &block_mask);
        sigaddset(&block_mask, SIGCHLD);
 
+       fflush(stdout);
        sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, &block_mask, &unblock_mask);
        child = fork();
        sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, &unblock_mask, NULL);