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From: gwyn@BRL.ARPA (VLD/VMB)
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: Re:  Buffering problems in pipes
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Date: Wed, 18-Dec-85 15:35:25 EST
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Posted: Wed Dec 18 15:35:25 1985
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I think it would be a nice idea if the STDIO package
would treat pipes much like terminals by default; i.e.,
not try to fill the whole BUFSIZ buffer but just use
whatever data the read() returns.  (I don't think
anything useful can be done about output to a pipe,
since allowing single-character write() would be too
inefficient for general use.)

Would this cause problems for anyone?  If not, let's
do it..