Re: [Mingw-msys] bash input buffering

Howard Chu wrote:
> I just noticed [...] bash is never using buffered I/O; it's
> reading script files one character at a time. This behavior is
> totally unnecessary.
>
> This patch fixes the behavior:
<patch>
Index: input.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/mingw/msys/packages/bash/3.1/input.c,v
retrieving revision 1.2
diff -u -r1.2 input.c
--- input.c     11 Aug 2006 17:21:39 -0000      1.2
+++ input.c     13 Mar 2007 02:00:16 -0000
@@ -337,7 +337,7 @@
  #if ! (__CYGWIN__ || __MSYS__)
  #  define fd_is_seekable(fd) (lseek ((fd), 0L, SEEK_CUR) >= 0)
  #else
-#  define fd_is_seekable(fd) 0
+#  define fd_is_seekable(fd) 1
  #endif /* __CYGWIN__ */

  /* Take FD, a file descriptor, and create and return a buffered stream
</patch>

Thanks for the patch, Howard.

This may have been better directed to the MinGW-dvlpr list, or
even better still, the patch tracker, but no matter.  I'll leave
it to Cesar to approve; subject to that, you may commit it.

Regards,
Keith.