running msys under wine

Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton lkcl at lkcl.net
Sat Jan 10 04:15:32 CST 2009


On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 12:05 AM, David Laight <david at 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!



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