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Re: more problems w/ irix
- X-seq: zsh-workers 2410
- From: Richard Coleman <coleman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Zefram <zefram@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Subject: Re: more problems w/ irix
- Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 10:23:10 -0500
- Cc: zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 14 Nov 1996 15:08:42 GMT." <24405.199611141508@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >If <muffled but entirely audible whimper> anyone wants to remove the
> >limit, it would be possible to make the fds member a pointer, and
> >enlarge it as necessary.
>
> I think the neatest way to handle it may be the struct hack, as the
> multios are already malloced.
>
> > I have little enthusiasm. It's a rather
> >inefficient way of processing a lot of files anyway.
>
> It's a nice syntax. If it's grossly inefficient, we should improve the
> code; being built in to the shell it *ought* to be more efficient than
> execing cat, at least for small files.
It doesn't exec a cat, it does the reading/writing itself (in closemn).
I'm not sure how we could make this more efficient without using something
like mmap().
rc
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