[BusyBox 0000744]: tr works awkwardly on a terminal

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The following issue has been CLOSED 
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http://busybox.net/bugs/view.php?id=744 
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Reported By:                rfelker
Assigned To:                BusyBox
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Project:                    BusyBox
Issue ID:                   744
Category:                   Other
Reproducibility:            always
Severity:                   tweak
Priority:                   normal
Status:                     closed
Resolution:                 open
Fixed in Version:           
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Date Submitted:             02-19-2006 14:49 PST
Last Modified:              06-30-2006 09:42 PDT
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Summary:                    tr works awkwardly on a terminal
Description: 
Not a bug per se, but an annoyance: tr does not work interactively with
line-buffered input from a terminal. Instead it waits to output anything
until its output buffer is full. Writing output after each successful
return from read would make it much more usable and should not affect
performance when reading from a file/continuous stream. SuSv3 says nothing
about how it should behave, so this is purely a usability concern, not a
compliance issue.

BTW (mildly related): tr does not check for EINTR when read returns. Not
sure if this can happen or not..

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 landley - 06-30-06 09:42  
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svn 15557 

Issue History 
Date Modified   Username       Field                    Change               
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02-19-06 14:49  rfelker        New Issue                                    
02-19-06 14:49  rfelker        Status                   new => assigned     
02-19-06 14:49  rfelker        Assigned To               => BusyBox         
06-30-06 09:42  landley        Status                   assigned => closed  
06-30-06 09:42  landley        Note Added: 0001485                          
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