Re: 100% cpu with: while true ;do read < /dev/null ;done

[Jan Schampera]

Jo King schrieb:

> Fix:
>       [ bash/the read code could
>  detect there's no stdin and sleep for 1-2 seconds]

If you consider this as a bug, the bug is not in Bash (but in the
application).

In short you request that read should wait a second, once it got a
end-of-file signalled, I don't think this is the way to 'fix' this
'bug'. It has far too many side effects or impacts to other uses of
read. Fix your application instead, query the exit code of read
(non-zero on EOF, timeout or error) and insert a conditional sleep yourself.

By the way (not really serious, but it fits): A CPU constantly below
100% is wasted money ;-)

Jan