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Re: Split Flushing to filter command


From: Pádraig Brady
Subject: Re: Split Flushing to filter command
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2014 15:36:14 +0000
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On 03/21/2014 03:13 PM, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
> On 03/21/2014 01:49 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
>> * src/split.c (lines_split): s/full_read/safe_read/.
> 
> Interestingly, that bug has been introduced with commit
> 
>   http://git.sv.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/commit/?id=23f6d41f94
> 
> eleven years ago when safe_read() has been replaced by
> full_read() ... exactly the other way round.

Note that patch was fine back then as then it was
not practical to have processes consuming the output of split directly.
There was no --filter, or no --number and thus not practical
to have either precreated fifos, or output to stdout.

thanks,
Pádraig.



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