Tru64 pipe buffer size

From: Iain Barker (ibarker_at_aastra.com)
Date: 04/06/05

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To: tru64-unix-managers@ornl.gov

    Managers,

    Is there any way to alter the buffer size used for the pipe (|) command on Tru64?

    We have a third-party tool which writes line-by-line to terminal device, but when its output is piped it seems to be buffering the data in chunks of approx 4KB at a guess.

    For example, assuming each line represents ~1.5K of data:

    ./foobar
    a
    b
    c
    d
    e
    f
    end of data

    ./foobar | tee outfile
    a
    b
    c
    <20 minute wait>
    d
    e
    f
    end of data

    thanks,
            Iain

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