RFE: enable buffering on null-terminated data

[Zachary Santer <zsanter@gmail.com>]

Was "stdbuf feature request - line buffering but for null-terminated data"

See below.

On Sun, Mar 10, 2024 at 5:38 AM Pádraig Brady <P@draigbrady.com> wrote:
>
> On 09/03/2024 16:30, Zachary Santer wrote:
> > 'stdbuf --output=L' will line-buffer the command's output stream.
> > Pretty useful, but that's looking for newlines. Filenames should be
> > passed between utilities in a null-terminated fashion, because the
> > null byte is the only byte that can't appear within one.
> >
> > If I want to buffer output data on null bytes, the closest I can get
> > is 'stdbuf --output=0', which doesn't buffer at all. This is pretty
> > inefficient.
> >
> > 0 means unbuffered, and Z is already taken for, I guess, zebibytes.
> > --output=N, then?
> >
> > Would this require a change to libc implementations, or is it possible now?
>
> This does seem like useful functionality,
> but it would require support for libc implementations first.
>
> cheers,
> Pádraig