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From: "Mark E." <snowball3 AT usa DOT net>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>, djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1999 12:11:25 -0400
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Subject: Re: Termios and getchar
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> Mark, does this mean that Bash never uses any buffered stdio functions,
> only `read' and `write' for its interactive I/O?  Otherwise, I don't
> understand how does the new port manage to invoke termios.

Bash uses Readline which in turn uses read() and write() which 
termios hooks. The hooks themselves are installed during Readline's 
initialization when tcgetattr is called (see the docs for 
__libc_termios_init to explain how this is true).

Mark

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