[BusyBox] "tee" is kinda funky too...

[Rob Landley]

So now I'm trying to rebuild my LFS system from within the first iteration of 
it.  It's a bit...  idiosyncratic, in places.

Did anyone ever actually try to _use_ busybox's tee?  It reads its input in 4k 
chunks, blocking until there's enough data.  This means if you pipe a compile 
into it, you get nothing for a long time, then a screenfull of data (stopping 
halfway through a line, usually), then nothing for a long time...

Did I mention that fread() is pointless and generally icky?  It was the 
standards committe bureaucracy's contribution to the c programming language.  
If fprint worked on a filehandle...

Does uclibc have either the gnu naming mistake "dprintf" or the intended 
extension "fdprintf"?  If so we could avoid a lot of gratuitous FILE 
structures in the code...

Rob
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