Doesn't really work on OSX about balls

[jneen]

Ha, yeah, thanks for catching these. The GNU-isms are a little hard to work around, although it's possible to do some feature-testing at the beginning and create wrapper functions for things that are just slightly different. My hunch is that many of the uses of sed, etc. could be replaced with clever uses of expr, but I'd have to dig a little further first.

I'll have to spend some time with the pipe buffering issues - I wonder if there's a way to force it to flush periodically, or change a file attribute to reduce the buffer size...?

[tabletcorry]

The pipe buffer issue is very difficult to solve. A hint as to how to do it is the stdbuf tool in GNU coreutils. It was written specifically to resolve this issue, but does not compile on OSX...

I actually talked this over with a kernel developer, and they suggested stty. I tried this out, but could not get the results I was looking for. He then suggested that I use a real programming language as this issue is libc dependent :)

Unfortunately, most people that have pipe buffering issues only come up with solutions that work on linux.

The most hackish way to solve the problem would be to always pump out huge messages, possibly by padding with a character that the browser will ignore (or just not render).