Disable latching for rostopic in piping mode [closed]

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Is it possible?

The wiki states there are three modes rostopic pub can function in, however it is not clear whether Rate mode and Latch mode are mutually exclusive.

Here are some cases (EDITED):

# Latching
$ rostopic pub /str std_msgs/String "Hello world"
publishing and latching message. Press ctrl-C to terminate
^C

# Not latching
$ rostopic pub -r 10 /str std_msgs/String "Hello world"
<No output here>
^C

# Still not latching
$ rostopic pub -r 10 --latch /str std_msgs/String "Hello world"
<No output here>
^C

# Latching again
$ rostopic pub -r 10 /another_str std_msgs/String "Test" &
$ rostopic echo /another_str | rostopic pub -r 10 /str std_msgs/String
publishing and latching message for 3.0 seconds
publishing and latching message for 3.0 seconds
...
publishing and latching message for 3.0 seconds
^C

If it is by design, then what is the reason to latch piped messages by default?

EDIT: Opened a ticket

EDIT #2:

Here is a simple one-line test:

$ for i in {1..1000}; do printf "data: ${i}\n---\n"; sleep 0.5; done | rostopic pub /test std_msgs/UInt64 > /dev/null & sleep 2 && rostopic echo /test
[1] 12431
data: 1
---
data: 2
---
data: 3
---
data: 4
---
data: 5
---
^C
$ kill $!

From the next one we can see that every message is latched indeed for 3 seconds (note the delay before echo for 9 seconds):

$ for i in {1..1000}; do printf "data: ${i}\n---\n"; sleep 0.5; done | rostopic pub /test std_msgs/UInt64 > /dev/null & sleep 9 && rostopic echo /test
[1] 12605
data: 18
---
data: 19
---
data: 20
---
data: 21
---
^C
$ kill $!

Hope it helps

Thanks