Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Jakub Narebski <jnareb@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>> Jeff King wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 02:23:00PM +0200, Jakub Narebski wrote:
>>>
>>>> Can any Perl expert tell us how Perl truly solve this? What is the best
>>>> way to dump whole [remaining] contents of file (from filehandle) to STDOUT?
>>>
>>> The same you would in C: read fix-sized buffers and dump them.
>> [...]
>>> Or you can use the File::Copy module, which is part of the standard
>>> distribution (and I believe has been so for all perl5 versions, but I
>>> could be wrong):
>>
>> And
>>
>> {
>> local $/;
>> print <$fd>;
>> }
>>
>> doesn't do the right thing?
[...]
> You can strace your Perl to see what yours does yourself:
>
> strace perl -e 'print <STDIN>' >/dev/null <some-huge-file
>
> You will see a bunch of read(0, ..., 4096) and after all of that
> finishes, finally you will see a bunch of write(1, ..., 4096).
> Where do you think the data is in the meantime?
Pity that Perl does this that a way.
Should we use File::Copy thorough the gitweb, instead of using slurp mode?
Well, perhaps except small files, like $GIT_DIR/description...
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Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
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