@http > Speaking as someone who's been dealing with bash for a *very long time* in occasionally weird situations, I have to weigh in here: your particular use case is not common.
And speaking as soneone who has used bash since it existed, since before bash, yeah it is bloody common. Maybe stop telling people what their experience is. It is also unrelated to bash and applies to all shells that do buffered reading, go troll soneone else.