Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2024 20:02:04 -0500
From: Greg Wooledge <g...@wooledge.org>
Message-ID: <zacpjascvwrwu...@wooledge.org>
| What actually counts is how many
| characters are *stored* in the variable, not how many characters are
| *read* from the input.
I suspect that is the root of the issue here, you're considering
the word "read" to mean read(2) whereas as it is in the documentation
for the read command, I suspect it means that one, how many characters
the read command obtains, rather than how many the read system call
processes (like elided newlines. when -r is not used, would also not
be counted, or expected to be, right?)
kre
