Hi! Thanks for raising the issue. Given the relative complexity of the patch and the low number of affected people, I don't feel we should be shipping this as a Ubuntu- specific patch. It might be a better idea for you to raise the issue on the upstream ML, possibly amending the original patch to take the various review remarks into account?
** Description changed: Tool "iconv" suffers from the stdio buffering problem described here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14472179/how-do-i-perform-a- streaming-character-conversion Basically, when piping to iconv in an interactive session, output stutters. Tool "stdbuf" does not help. From the page above: "But it looks like iconv is managing the buffering internally itself - it's nothing to do with the Linux pipe buffer." Solutions are described in this page: http://www.pixelbeat.org/programming/stdio_buffering/ iconv should have a command-line switch to help. From the page above: "Note tail's stdout buffer would also have this problem, but tail -f calls fflush on the stdout stream when new data is received to alleviate this (as do tcpdump -l, grep --line-buffered and sed --unbuffered for example)." + + [known workaround] + Use `recode` instead. ** Changed in: eglibc (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Low ** Changed in: eglibc (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Triaged -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to eglibc in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1568726 Title: iconv stdio buffering Status in eglibc package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Tool "iconv" suffers from the stdio buffering problem described here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14472179/how-do-i-perform-a- streaming-character-conversion Basically, when piping to iconv in an interactive session, output stutters. Tool "stdbuf" does not help. From the page above: "But it looks like iconv is managing the buffering internally itself - it's nothing to do with the Linux pipe buffer." Solutions are described in this page: http://www.pixelbeat.org/programming/stdio_buffering/ iconv should have a command-line switch to help. From the page above: "Note tail's stdout buffer would also have this problem, but tail -f calls fflush on the stdout stream when new data is received to alleviate this (as do tcpdump -l, grep --line-buffered and sed --unbuffered for example)." [known workaround] Use `recode` instead. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/eglibc/+bug/1568726/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
