Not op, but holy shit, it actually does! Wish I knew that before, ty!

This!

It’s merely a buffer flush, in case it’s empty, the program handling the input can choose how to interpret, cat decides to do it as an EOF.

Reason why it also works as exit.

Some dude explained below.

At first I was also really confused, the title is bad imo.

Reading further into it seems to be prisoners working as extra firefighters, not “normal” full-time firefighters that were arrested lol

Yeah, I wonder how long until Elmo arrives to “make the FTC more efficient” lmao