bash problems ? (was Re: cygwin fork())

[Christopher Faylor]

I'm just changing the subject so that Eric will, with luck, notice
and comment on what's going on here.

cgf

On Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 10:47:13AM -0700, clayne@anodized.com wrote:
>On Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 01:24:57PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> >In regards to setting the fd to textmode as a way of stripping CRs.
>> >Only problem is that it's making 213,110 syscalls for a 213k libtool
>> >script.  That cannot be an efficient way to remove CRs from input.
>> 
>> Opening a file with O_TEXT should not, AFAIK, cause a bunch of one-byte
>> reads.
>> 
>> A simple test case (tm) seems to confirm that.
>
>You're right. I also verified this.
>
>I found the real culprit, which I had also ifdef'd out because it looked
>bogus and crufty:
>
>/* Return 1 if a seek on FD will succeed. */
>#ifndef __CYGWIN__
>#  define fd_is_seekable(fd) (lseek ((fd), 0L, SEEK_CUR) >= 0)
>#else
>#  define fd_is_seekable(fd) 0
>#endif /* __CYGWIN__ */
>
>/* Take FD, a file descriptor, and create and return a buffered stream
>   corresponding to it.  If something is wrong and the file descriptor
>   is invalid, return a NULL stream. */
>BUFFERED_STREAM *
>fd_to_buffered_stream (fd)
>     int fd;
>{
>  char *buffer;
>  size_t size;
>  struct stat sb;
>
>  if (fstat (fd, &sb) < 0)
>    {
>      close (fd);
>      return ((BUFFERED_STREAM *)NULL);
>    }
>
>  size = (fd_is_seekable (fd)) ? min (sb.st_size, MAX_INPUT_BUFFER_SIZE) : 1;
>  if (size == 0)
>    size = 1;
>  buffer = (char *)xmalloc (size);
>
>  return (make_buffered_stream (fd, buffer, size));
>}

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