From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 15:12:55 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: (dump_remainder): Don't fflush stdout here.
X-Git-Tag: FILEUTILS-4_0e~150
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=e0aa18bb339f7d9e6011e099e169269b4a05d955;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git

(dump_remainder): Don't fflush stdout here.
(main) [if forever]: Make stdout unbuffered, instead.
---

diff --git a/src/tail.c b/src/tail.c
index 7be926e46b..11e78f2654 100644
--- a/src/tail.c
+++ b/src/tail.c
@@ -615,9 +615,6 @@ dump_remainder (const char *pretty_filename, int fd)
   if (bytes_read == -1)
     error (EXIT_FAILURE, errno, "%s", pretty_filename);
 
-  if (forever)
-    fflush (stdout);
-
   return total;
 }
 
@@ -1394,7 +1391,10 @@ main (int argc, char **argv)
     exit_status |= tail_file (&F[i], n_units);
 
   if (forever)
-    tail_forever (F, n_files);
+    {
+      SETVBUF (stdout, NULL, _IONBF, 0);
+      tail_forever (F, n_files);
+    }
 
   if (have_read_stdin && close (0) < 0)
     error (EXIT_FAILURE, errno, "-");