On 03/21/2014 03:13 PM, Bernhard Voelker wrote: > On 03/21/2014 01:49 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote: >> * src/split.c (lines_split): s/full_read/safe_read/. > > Interestingly, that bug has been introduced with commit > > http://git.sv.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/commit/?id=23f6d41f94 > > eleven years ago when safe_read() has been replaced by > full_read() ... exactly the other way round.
Note that patch was fine back then as then it was not practical to have processes consuming the output of split directly. There was no --filter, or no --number and thus not practical to have either precreated fifos, or output to stdout. thanks, Pádraig.
