On 9/22/18 6:38 AM, Ilkka Virta wrote: > On 22.9. 02:34, Chet Ramey wrote: >> Newline? It's probably that stdout is line-buffered and the newline causes >> a flush, which results in a write(2). > > Mostly out of curiosity, what kind of buffering logic does Bash (or the > builtin printf in particular) use?
Bash sets stdout and stderr to line buffering. It's done this since the early 1.x days. -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU c...@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/