Re: Examples of concurrent coproc usage?

[Chet Ramey]

On 4/16/24 2:46 AM, Carl Edquist wrote:

> But the shell is pretty slow when you ask it to shovel data around like 
> this.  The 'read' builtin, for instance, cautiously does read(2) calls of a 
> single byte at a time. 

It has to do it that way to find the delimiter on a non-seekable file
descriptor, since it has to leave everything it didn't consume available
on stdin.

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