Re: read() may fail due to nonblocking stdin

[Chet Ramey]

On 1/23/17 10:45 AM, Chet Ramey wrote:
> On 1/23/17 10:42 AM, Chet Ramey wrote:
>> On 1/22/17 2:32 PM, Siteshwar Vashisht wrote:
>>> If a child process sets stdin to non-blocking and does not set it back to 
>>> blocking before exiting, other processes may fail to read from stdin.
>>
>> It's not the shell's business to be resetting this for processes it spawns.
>> What bash should do is to turn of O_NONBLOCK when it reads input, which it
>> already does at startup but not every time it calls readline().
> 
> And maybe I should make the follow-up point explicit: that will fix this
> problem, too.

Something like this, for instance.

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readline-unset-ndelay.patch
Description: Source code patch