Date: Sat, 05 Jun 2010 14:42:59 -0700 From: Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com> To: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: head behaviour Message-ID: <20100605214259.D72AA5B30@mail.bitblocks.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 05 Jun 2010 17:02:42 EDT." <20100605170242.3bd614d3@bhuda.mired.org> References: <20100605201242.C79345B52@mail.bitblocks.com> <20100605170242.3bd614d3@bhuda.mired.org>
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On Sat, 05 Jun 2010 17:02:42 EDT Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> wrote: > As a general rule, programs don't expect to share their input with > other programs, nor do they make guarantees about what is and isn't > read from that input under those conditions. I'd say that shell > scripts that depend on what some command does with it's unprocessed > input are buggy. Fair enough. Thanks!
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