On Fri., 20 dec. 2019 at 3:57, Martin Schulte (<g...@schrader-schulte.de>) wrote:
> Hello! > > > Could you please comment about this assertions: > > > > 1.- bash will either do a select() or an ioctl(FIONREAD), or neither > > of them, but not both, as it should for it to work. read -t0 is broken. > > 2.- Conclusion: read -t0 is *broken* in bash. Don't use it. – > > No. It works as intended. It's not usable in a pipe in the way you try, > but this is caused by the principles of a pipe, not by a bug in read. > > Hello Martin! I am not the one making those comments. I don't have enough C expertise to neither confirm or deny them. But that also makes me unable to answer to the author of the comments in the proper way. I intended to receive something to correct his (incorect?) opinion. In any case, thanks. Best regards, Isaac
