Bash output stream write to a file

Question

so i am running this on bash:

# somedevice -getevent

What this command does is it just keeps running, and everytime my device sends a certa

Answer 1

The command somedevice probably uses the "Standard Input/Output Library", and in that library, the buffering is on by default. It is switched off when the output does to a terminal/console.

Can you modify the somedevice program? If not, you can still hack around it. See http://www.pixelbeat.org/programming/stdio_buffering/ for details.