Re^2: confusing fork/readline behaviour

Ah that makes sense, thanks. Presumably my script above is unsafe in the general case - I imagine libc could readahead 4k and not finish on a line boundary, then the second process would call readline and start halfway through a line...

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Re^3: confusing fork/readline behaviour by afoken (Chancellor) on Aug 14, 2015 at 18:22 UTC
Presumably my script above is unsafe in the general case - I imagine libc could readahead 4k and not finish on a line boundary, then the second process would call readline and start halfway through a line. Correct. Why do you want two processes to read the same file? Alexander -- Today I will gladly share my knowledge and experience, for there are no sweeter words than "I told you so". ;-)	[reply]