Re: pkg_alternatives, Darwin and locale

[Christian Biere <christianbiere%gmx.de@localhost>]

Christian Biere wrote:
> while read line; do :; done < "$file"

> It would be nice if the shells were smart enough to enable line buffered
> I/O in this case as it should have no side-effects here.

Actually, bash and ksh seem to do this at least they're calling read()
with a single-byte buffer unlike sh.

-- 
Christian