On Fri, May 24, 2019 at 04:25:12PM +0700, Robert Elz wrote: > | That's probably the shell that must read input byte by byte in most cases. > > The shell actually very rarely does one byte reads when not reading > from the terminal (and even then only for command line editing). > > That used to be important in the pre Bourne-shell days, but the time > of the shell passing the open script to child processes to read from > are long gone - and without that, it isn't as important that there > be no readahead.
Did POSIX drop the requirement that sh scripts can successfully be self-modifying? (if so, hurray) -- David A. Holland dholl...@netbsd.org
