Reclaim the Terminal
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When you pipe a file into `less`, stdin is occupied — so how does it still respond to keypresses? The answer is `/dev/tty`, which opens the controlling terminal directly, bypassing stdin entirely. This deep-dive explores how pipelines coordinate process ordering using pipe EOF as a handoff signal, how processes detect their position, and why terminal input isn't tied to fd 0.
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