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Re: bug in yesno()?
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Paul Eggert |
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Re: bug in yesno()? |
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Mon, 20 Feb 2006 02:04:59 -0800 |
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Eric Blake <address@hidden> writes:
> Should yesno() be setting the properties of stdin to be unbuffered for the
> duration of the getline(), so that the rest of stdin is not consumed too
> early?
That would make the code less portable/reliable, I think, and would
slow things down. POSIX does not require the behavior that you want.
Solaris 10 'rm' behaves like GNU rm here.
(Can you tell which way I'm leaning? :-)
- bug in yesno()?, Eric Blake, 2006/02/17
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