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Bash's read builtin errors on a string-based timeout option specification but not an array-based one. Why?

In reading through the source to fff to learn more about Bash programming, I saw a timeout option passed to read as an array here: read "${read_flags[@]}" -srn 1 && key "$REPLY&...
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