10 Jan
2009
10 Jan
'09
10:15 a.m.
On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 12:05 AM, David Laight david@l8s.co.uk wrote:
On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 06:39:27PM +0000, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
further up the strace files, i'm looking at the biggest offender and it looks like it's reading files one byte at a time.
Certainly a normal unix shell has to read input (from stdin) byte by byte since it never knows when it might have to fork a process passing stdin through - and the child needs the correct file offset.
ohhh, ok :) it just looked... mad!