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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
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Subject: Re: Reading the while standard input into a String
Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2011 18:14:57 -0400
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Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org> writes:

> Personally I think this is a fundamentally bad idea.  Consider:
>
> $ my_program < /dev/random

What do you expect

    sort /dev/random

to do?  Or

    tail /dev/random

?

;-) ;-)

> Note that reading one character at a time from a stream is quite fast
> since streams normally use the operating system's buffered IO. Adding
> a second layer of buffering inside your program is probably counter-
> productive.

Yes, probably.

- Bob