gwyn@BRL.ARPA (VLD/VMB) (12/18/85)
I think it would be a nice idea if the STDIO package would treat pipes much like terminals by default; i.e., not try to fill the whole BUFSIZ buffer but just use whatever data the read() returns. (I don't think anything useful can be done about output to a pipe, since allowing single-character write() would be too inefficient for general use.) Would this cause problems for anyone? If not, let's do it..