I mean, if someone asked me about this in an interview, I would say something like "As a working software developer, what I can tell you is that sometimes the l

I mean, if someone asked me about this in an interview, I would say something like "As a working software developer, what I can tell you is that sometimes the line discipline gets broken and borks the line endings, and I know how to reset it at that point, and that is the only reason I normally have to think about this particular layer of the whole shell software stack, but if I ever had a professional reason to look into it in more detail, at least I do know where to start digging."