From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 22:39:49 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2 v2] check-attr: Add --stdin-paths option
Message-ID: <18671.55733.970601.454074@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>
In-Reply-To: <20081007001652.GR21650@dpotapov.dyndns.org>

Dmitry Potapov writes:

> This allows multiple paths to be specified on stdin.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Potapov <dpotapov@gmail.com>
> ---
> On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 09:09:11AM +0200, Johannes Sixt wrote:
> > 
> > The least that is needed is fflush(stdout) in this loop (after each
> > iteration!)
> 
> Thanks. Somehow, I forgot about it though it is quite obvious.
> I have added maybe_flush_or_die().

Actually, what was done with git diff-tree --stdin was to have it do
fflush(stdout) when it sees a blank line in the input.  That gives the
calling program a way to get the output up to that point without
having to do a flush for every line of output.

Paul.