Re: bash sockets: printf \x0a does TCP fragmentation

From	Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu>
Newsgroups	gnu.bash.bug
Subject	Re: bash sockets: printf \x0a does TCP fragmentation
Date	2018-09-23 15:15 -0400
Organization	ITS, Case Western Reserve University
Message-ID	<mailman.1185.1537730977.1284.bug-bash@gnu.org> (permalink)
References	(2 earlier) <714e1ba0-0052-2f2b-676d-778f2b7129c1@testssl.sh> <20180922111950901701520@bob.proulx.com> <948d4864-8808-9ce4-cc1e-2cce68256897@case.edu> <20180923122957986978110@bob.proulx.com> <20180923124417248962592@bob.proulx.com>

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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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Re: bash sockets: printf \x0a does TCP fragmentation Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> - 2018-09-23 15:15 -0400

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