Re: pty behaviour

[Thomas Bushnell, BSG]

Roland McGrath <address@hidden> writes:

> It's possible that Linux is behaving the same way and just keeping up
> better (and we already know it's much faster).  (When I am in the mood, I
> can read Linux source and see what exactly it does.)  That is, the 8kish
> value is how much cumulatively gets through over many iterations of the
> consumer almost but not quite keeping up with the producer, before the
> small buffer of the remainders adds up to being full.

Possibly, but I would expect the "paste" operation to simply generate
one big write request.