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.
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