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.
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