Re: Why does "mapfile -d delim" (delim != '\n') use unbuffered read?

[Chet Ramey]

On 5/4/21 3:26 AM, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> On Mai 03 2021, Chet Ramey wrote:
>
> > It won't work on any system that doesn't return -1/ESPIPE when you try
> > to lseek on a terminal device. Glibc does;
>
> Glibc doesn't do anything, it just uses what the kernel says.

You'd think, but the manual says otherwise about ESPIPE:

"The filedes corresponds to an object that cannot be positioned, such as a
pipe, FIFO or terminal device. (POSIX.1 specifies this error only for pipes
and FIFOs, but on GNU systems, you always get ESPIPE if the object is not
seekable.)"

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