On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 10:07:20AM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > The unbuffer expect script sets up a tty around the called program so > that instead of a pipe the program detects a tty.
> The stdbuf utility works by setting up an LD_PRELOAD library > libstdbuf.so that replaces the libc calls and intercepts and overrides > the calls to do buffering. Ah! That's very good to know. That means that, among other things, statically linked programs can't be stdbuf'ed.