---
name: "blackened-ircflush"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "blackened"
version: "1.8.0-3"
release: "Debian 3.0 (Woody)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/blackened-ircflush"
---

# blackened-ircflush(1)

a little program that tricks another program into line buffering its output.

## NAME

blackened-ircflush - a little program that tricks another program into line buffering its output.

## SYNOPSIS

**blackened-ircflush** *program* \[ *arguments*to*program* \]

## DESCRIPTION

This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the original program does not have a manual page.

blackened-ircflush is a.k.a. ircflush.

What's the deal here?  Well, it's like this.  First we find an open tty/pty pair.  Then we fork three processes.  The first reads from stdin and sends the info to the master device.  The next process reads from the master device and sends stuff to stdout.  The last processes is the rest of the command line arguments exec'd.  By doing all this, the exec'd process is fooled into flushing each line of output as it occurs.

## SEE ALSO

[blackened(1)](/blackened/1.md)

## AUTHORS

Ircflush is written by Michael Sandrof (ms5n+@andrew.cmu.edu), and adapted by Timothy L. Jensen (Toast) toast@blackened.com.

This manual page copy-and-paste-d by Joost van Baal \<joostvb@debian.org\>, from the ircflush source comments, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but  may be used by others).