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Re: bash sockets: printf \x0a does TCP fragmentation

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  Re: bash sockets: printf \x0a does TCP fragmentation Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> - 2018-09-22 16:39 -0400

#14638 — Re: bash sockets: printf \x0a does TCP fragmentation

On 9/22/18 6:38 AM, Ilkka Virta wrote:
> On 22.9. 02:34, Chet Ramey wrote:
>> Newline? It's probably that stdout is line-buffered and the newline causes
>> a flush, which results in a write(2).
> 
> Mostly out of curiosity, what kind of buffering logic does Bash (or the
> builtin printf in particular) use? 

Bash sets stdout and stderr to line buffering. It's done this since the
early 1.x days.

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