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		glandium on Oct 12, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A Little Story About the `yes` Unix Command It's always line buffered. Unlike python, where its behaviour depends on whether stdout is a tty or not.

wruza on Oct 12, 2017 [–]

That doesn’t answer my question, let me reformulate it: what’s the rationale behind this behavior?

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