Re: Incomplete output from "cvs annotate"

[Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>]

Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:

> Wouldn't select on both fd's and reading from the first one available,
> and then sending that to the buffer, work?  Perhaps if there is data
> in both stdout and stderr, write the stderr data.  Surely there is
> some similar logic somewhere in bash, the kernel or somewhere.

The only place where multiplexing is required is in ssh, as it has to
transmit two data streams over a single channel.  The kernel just copies
the data from the source to the sink as soon as it is available, and the
shell is not involved in any data copying, it only sets up the stream
connections.

Andreas.

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