Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: How can I read keyboard without stopping
Message-ID: <1988Aug21.020010.12745@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <813@ms3.UUCP> <1246@mcgill-vision.UUCP> <1988Aug15.130550.8571@ateng.uucp> <1267@ficc.UUCP> <5558@rpp386.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 21 Aug 88 02:00:10 GMT

In article <5558@rpp386.UUCP> jfh@rpp386.UUCP (The Beach Bum) writes:
>stat() is implemented by taking chunks of the inode table enty and stuffing
>that into a "struct stat" thingy.  i believe the number of characters
>queued in a pipe was a side effect (read `feature') of the implementation
>of pipes, and probably not intentional.

Possibly so in the beginning, but it *was* documented in V7.
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