[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> If "read -t" times out without fulfilling a request, any pending data is
> lost.
> Via strace it's apparent that the problem is that when the user requests a
> line of
> data, bash read is actually calling read() with a buffer size of one. So bash
> is
> holding t
Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]:
Machine: i386
OS: linux-gnu
Compiler: gcc
Compilation CFLAGS: -DPROGRAM='bash' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='i386'
-DCONF_OSTYPE='linux-gnu' -DCONF_MACHTYPE='i386-pc-linux-gnu'
-DCONF_VENDOR='pc' -DLOCALEDIR='/usr/share/locale' -DPACKAGE='ba
