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-rwxr-xr-xtests/tail-2/flush-initial4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/tests/tail-2/flush-initial b/tests/tail-2/flush-initial
index 515b29d8b..e0d79fe48 100755
--- a/tests/tail-2/flush-initial
+++ b/tests/tail-2/flush-initial
@@ -25,7 +25,9 @@ fi
fail=0
echo line > in || fail=1
-stdbuf --output=1K tail -f in > out &
+# Output should be buffered since we're writing to file
+# so we're depending on the flush to write out
+tail -f in > out &
tail_pid=$!
# Wait for 1 second for the file to be flushed.