diff -ur busybox-1.17.3-akaros-orig/coreutils/echo.c busybox-1.17.3-akaros/coreutils/echo.c
--- busybox-1.17.3-akaros-orig/coreutils/echo.c	2015-03-02 11:35:58.782323515 -0500
+++ busybox-1.17.3-akaros/coreutils/echo.c	2015-03-02 11:37:31.122641120 -0500
@@ -96,6 +96,10 @@
 	}
  just_echo:
 #endif
+	/* brho: need to buffer a full line at a time.  not sure if glibc should
+	 * have this set for stdout or not. */
+	if (setvbuf(stdout, 0, _IOLBF, 0))
+		perror("Failed to setvbuf");
 	while (1) {
 		/* arg is already == *argv and isn't NULL */
 		int c;