[PATCH 0/4] Improve delayer

[Julien ÉLIE]

Hi Christoph,
> Warning, the output buffering done by delayer can easily cause some
> confusion.

I was a bit mistaken by that.  Thanks for having taken the time to 
verify how that works.


> Good news, a stand-alone test is very easy to do. For better visibility,
> I recommend the ts (timestamping) program as it prefixes each input line
> with a timestamp.

I did not know ts.  Thanks for the pointer to it; I'll remember it and 
will surely use it for future testing.


>      $ (
>          sleep 3 ; echo 'art1' ;
>          sleep 56 ; echo 'art2' ;
>          sleep 3 ; echo 'art3' ;
>          sleep 58 ; echo 'EOF'
>      ) | perl contrib/delayer.in --delay 60 --no-buffered -- ts -s
>      00:01:03 art1
>      00:01:59 art2
>      00:02:00 art3
>      00:02:00 EOF
> 
> The first two lines are delayed by 60 seconds as desired, the third not
> because everything is flushed at end of input.

That's fine.


> Also, it's not necessary to have another input to trigger output, that
> was a misunterstanding on my side. So please drop the lines
> 
> +Still a line is not sent to output until another line is read from the
> +input.

OK, I'll remove that sentence.

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Julien ÉLIE

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