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Re: bash sockets: printf \x0a does TCP fragmentation

From: Chet Ramey
Subject: Re: bash sockets: printf \x0a does TCP fragmentation
Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2018 15:15:46 -0400
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On 9/23/18 2:46 PM, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Chet Ramey wrote:
>> It's that bash sets stdout and stderr to be line-buffered, not anything
>> printf-specific.
> 
> Shouldn't bash set stdout buffering based upon the output descriptor
> being a tty or not the same as other libc stdio behavior?

It's been so long (25+ years) I forget why we did it.

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