Re: ldapsearch and buffered stdout

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

Dale.Moore@cs.cmu.edu wrote:
> The client tool can read from stdin and produce output on stdout.
> For example
>    ldapsearch -L -x -f - 'cn=%s' uid
>
> This will read cn values from stdin and produce search results on stdout.
> But doing this interactively does not produce the immediate feedback
> because stdout is often buffered.  The search results are presented
> only after a sufficient amount have been buffered, or an EOF is encountered.

stdout is line buffered by default when it's attached to a terminal. I don't 
see any reason to change this. If it's behaving like a block-buffered handle 
on your system then your platform is broken.
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