From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: scj@yaccman.com (scj@yaccman.com)
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2014 11:55:20 -0700
Subject: [TUHS] the sin of buffering [offshoot of excise process from a
 pipeline]
In-Reply-To: <201407150231.s6F2VRK0022875@coolidge.cs.dartmouth.edu>
References: <201407150231.s6F2VRK0022875@coolidge.cs.dartmouth.edu>
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Bah!  This is a bug in Unix, IMHO.  We would consider it a bug if a
buffered output file refused to dump it's output buffer upon exit.  It
seems to me to be just as much a bug if a buffered input file refuses to
push back its unused input on exit.  Unix should have provided a mechanism
to permit this...

Steve


>> Err, why is buffering data in the process a sin? (Or was this just a
> humourous aside?)
>
> Process A spawns process B, which reads stdin with buffering. B gets
> all it deserves from stdin and exits. What's left in the buffer,
> intehded for A, is lost. Sinful.
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