Re: [somewhat offtopic] quesion on shell output redirection
On Mon, Oct 19, 1998 at 06:54:53PM -0400, Greg Klanderman wrote:
Anyway the question is, if I redirect stdout and stderr as follows
(in /bin/sh):
% some_command > output.txt 2>&1
am I guaranteed that output to stdout and stderr by the program is
synchronized? Do the two output streams share the same buffer?
No. Stdio internal buffers aren't synchronized no matter what you
externally do.
OG.