Robert Parker wrote:
> Yet when I attempt the same in a C program, the system always writes
> 2 prompts, then waits for a read.
> Does not matter if I write(1, "..."); read(0, number, buffer); or use
> fputs("...", stdout); fgets(.....
> The result is the same.
> And I have tried using readline without any better result.I completely agree with Bob. It looks like your C program were doing a loop (which your shell script doesn't!) and there's a wrong condition somewhere. But you need to show the code that is failing (provide a minimal program that exhibits the failure).
