Hello! > Could you please comment about this assertions: > > 1.- bash will either do a select() or an ioctl(FIONREAD), or neither > of them, but not both, as it should for it to work. read -t0 is broken. > 2.- Conclusion: read -t0 is *broken* in bash. Don't use it. –
No. It works as intended. It's not usable in a pipe in the way you try, but this is caused by the principles of a pipe, not by a bug in read. while ! read -t 0; do echo 'It works as intended - just press RETURN to see why' done Best regards, Martin
