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Re: mapfile module - avoiding $(...) in completion functions
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- From: Sven Wischnowsky <wischnow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Subject: Re: mapfile module - avoiding $(...) in completion functions
- Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2000 10:45:15 +0100 (MET)
- In-reply-to: "Andrej Borsenkow"'s message of Thu, 6 Jan 2000 10:32:54 +0300
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Andrej Borsenkow wrote:
> > Since in the completion system we generally want to avoid the extra
> > processes needed for $(...), we would use caching for the printer
> > names there (and the function for the lp commands I just sent to
> > zsh-workers does that). And we would also make this nicer by
> > supporting the other mechanisms used throughout the completion system.
> >
>
> May be it was discussed already, but is not mapfile module alternative to
> $(...)? We mostly need it to parse files content, as in $(</etc/printcap), and
> in this case we could just as well mmap the file.
>
> ...
>
> Is there any system now-a-days without mmap support?
I'd like to know that, too. It's the reason why I haven't used mapfile
in completion functions yet.
> And where the "real" $(...) is needed, we cannot cache it anyway (process list
> is an example).
And fonts, X-extensions, tar and YP-stuff are counterexamples.
Bye
Sven
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