Re: [PATCH] Use line buffering for standard output

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