Timeline for Stdin Input Behavior Between "cat" and "less"
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| Jan 20, 2015 at 20:23 | comment | added | Mark Plotnick |
@RichHomolka less actually does open /dev/tty, but opening that device just gives the process another descriptor to the actual tty device, and with two descriptors to the same device, the reads would compete over the same queue of input characters.
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| Jan 20, 2015 at 1:58 | comment | added | Rich Homolka | Couldn't you open /dev/tty for responses and still use stdin for data? A simple way of making input out of band | |
| Jan 8, 2015 at 8:22 | history | edited | Mark Plotnick | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
added 106 characters in body
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| Jan 8, 2015 at 1:35 | vote | accept | boxofchalk1 | ||
| Jan 7, 2015 at 22:37 | history | answered | Mark Plotnick | CC BY-SA 3.0 |