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The POSIX standard requires real UNIX pipes as in pipe(2). But on
systems supporting it (all modern ones), ksh uses socketpair(2)
instead to make it possible for certain commands to peek ahead
without consuming input from the pipe, which is not possible with
real pipes. See features/poll and sh/io.c.
But this can create undesired side effects: applications connected
to a pipe may test if they are connected to a pipe, which will fail
if they are connected to a socket. Also, on Linux:
$ cat /etc/passwd | head -1 /dev/stdin
head: cannot open '/dev/stdin' for reading: No such device or address
...which happens because, unlike most systems, Linux cannot open(2)
or openat(2) a socket (a limitation that is allowed by POSIX).
Unfortunately at least two things depend on the peekahead
capability of the _pipe_socketpair feature. One is the non-blocking
behaviour of the -n option of the 'read' built-in:
-n Causes at most n bytes to be read instead of a full
line, but will return when reading from a slow device as
soon as any characters have been read.
The other thing that breaks is the <#pattern and <##pattern
redirection operators that basically grep standard input, which
inherently requires peekahead.
Standard UNIX pipes always block on read and it is not possible to
peek ahead, so these features inevitably break. Which means we
cannot simply use standard pipes without breaking compatibility.
But we can at least fix it in the POSIX mode so that cross-platform
scripts work more correctly.
src/cmd/ksh93/sh/io.c: sh_pipe():
- If _pipe_socketpair is detected at compile time, then use a real
pipe via sh_rpipe() if the POSIX mode is active. (If
_pipe_socketpair is not detected, a real pipe is always used.)
src/cmd/ksh93/data/builtins.c:
- sh.1 documents the slow-device behaviour of -n but 'read --man'
did not. Add that, making it conditional on _pipe_socketpair.
Resolves: https://github.com/ksh93/ksh/issues/327
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