Re: Why sourcing a file is not faster than doing a loop with eval, zle -N

[Sebastian Gniazdowski <psprint@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 19 czerwca 2017 at 22:52:37, Peter Stephenson (p.w.stephenson@xxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Jun 2017 20:28:35 +0100
> Peter Stephenson wrote:
> > How about something like this? As far as I can tell, fgets is designed
> > from the ground up as Gets Done Properly, so if you have it on your
> > system it will work correctly. I can't think of a case where this
> > wouldn't do the right thing --- fgets will read at most one line and if
> > it does we were going to get the big STDIO overhead at that point
> > anyway.
> 
> I know what the problem with it is --- we can't tell the difference
> betwen a terminating '\0' and a '\0' that's part of the input stream.

We could do a pair of calls, first fgets(), then fgetc(), and this way solve this problem?

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Sebastian Gniazdowski
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