bug#32228: sed -i does not buffer, causing excessive writes

[Assaf Gordon]

tags 32228 fixed
close 32228
stop


On 02/08/18 08:40 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 21, 2018 at 3:48 AM, Assaf Gordon <address@hidden> wrote:
> > On 20/07/18 02:23 PM, Vidar Holen wrote:
> > > I'm using noticing that `sed -i` does not do any kind of output
> > > buffering.
> >
> > I wonder if there are good reasons to explicitly flush all output -
> > ideas anyone?
>
> Thank you, Assaf. This change looks fine.
> I too tried to determine why that code was written that way to no
> avail. I have no idea what the motivation might have been.

Thanks for the review.

Pushed here:
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/sed.git/commit/?id=0144eeeb

regards,
 - assaf