Re: [PATCH] Flush stdout more often

haller@ableton.com (Stefan Haller) writes:

>To recap: For operations that can take a long time to complete, such as
>status or update, it is nice to flush stdout after every line of status
>output, to give nicer behaviour when piping output into, say, a pager,
>or tee.

What about the following trivial script:

#!/usr/bin/env python
import sys, os
(pid, master) = os.forkpty()
if pid == 0:
    os.execvp(sys.argv[1], sys.argv[1:])
while 1:
    try:
        s = os.read(master, 0x1000)
    except:
        break
    sys.stdout.write(s)

Instead of littering your flushes all over the code, just run your subversion
command through this. No svn changes necessary.

(If you insist in changing the client, why not add a global option
which just sets the stdout buffering to line mode?)

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Received on Mon Apr 10 00:03:53 2006