Dan Stromberg <drsali...@gmail.com>: > On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 9:41 PM, Marko Rauhamaa <ma...@pacujo.net> wrote: >> Terminal devices support line buffering on write. > Yes, though that's not the only place it's useful. > >> Line buffering on read is an illusion created by higher-level libraries. >> The low-level read function reads in blocks of bytes. > > Actually, doesn't line buffering sometimes exist inside an OS kernel? > stty/termios/termio/sgtty relate here, for *ix examples. Supporting > code: http://stromberg.dnsalias.org/~strombrg/ttype/ It turns on > character-at-a-time I/O in the tty driver via a variety of methods for > portability. I wrote it in C before I took an interest in Python.
I was being sloppy in my TTY terminology. A TTY device is running inside the kernel and thus "writes" by copying bytes from its kernel buffer into the user space when the user space process calls read(2). Marko -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
