Type-ahead in unix

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <4467 at skye.ed.ac.uk> richard at aiai.UUCP (Richard Tobin) writes:
>In article <15784 at smoke.brl.mil> gwyn at smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) writes:
>>I forgot to mention that this also moves the insertion point to just
>>after the newline.
>Presumably this happens when the process reads the line, rather than when 
>the newline is inserted?

That I don't recall, but my guess would be not, since the interface has no
idea when the input data will actually be consumed by a process on the host.

In an independent reimplementation of the basic notion, you could opt to
do this whatever way seems suitable.  Let us know how it turns out.