On Mon, 19 Nov 2001, Herbert Xu wrote:
> Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu> wrote:
>
> > PS: with bash-2.03:
> > $ while read i; do echo $i; done < /proc/ip_tables_names
> > $ while read i; do echo $i; done < /proc/ip_conntrack
> > $
> > 'cause this beast reads byte-by-byte...
>
> Actually, there is no easy way of implementing a read(1) that doesn't
> read byte-by-byte...
Some shells (pdksh 5.2.14-1, bash 2.04 as shipped by SuSE) are trying to be
smart if stdin is from regular file - they hope that third argument of
lseek() is in bytes and is consistent with read() return value.
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