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

[Andreas Schwab]

On Mai 04 2021, Chet Ramey wrote:

> 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.)"

How does that contradict what I said?

Andreas.

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