[issue9929] subprocess.Popen unbuffered not work

[Antoine Pitrou]

Antoine Pitrou <pitrou at free.fr> added the comment:

> But if line buffering doesn't work, disabling buffering on 
> stdout/stderr does have a functional consequence: it allows process 
> output to appear as generated instead of coming in chunks when the
> buffer is full

Yes, sorry, I had it backwards. It's buffering on stdin which doesn't make any functional difference (whether it's buffered or not, you always get data as soon as it arrives).

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