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From: Nobody on 12 Aug 2010 15:32
On Wed, 11 Aug 2010 18:49:26 -0700, RG wrote:

> This doesn't explain why "cat | cat" when run interactively outputs
> line-by-line (which it does). STDIN to the first cat is a TTY, but the
> second one isn't.

GNU cat doesn't use stdio, it uses read() and write(), so there isn't any
buffering.

For more complex programs, using unbuffered I/O may not be practical,
due to either code complexity or performance.

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