On Mon, Dec 5, 2016 at 10:03 AM, Michael Forney <mfor...@mforney.org> wrote: > This would eliminate the extra copies, but we still have the issue of > doing fread repeated reads until the passed in buffer is completely > filled before we are able to write anything. Run something like make > 2>&1 | cat, and you will see the output only appear in large chunks. >
I don't know what design decisions might have lead to the current situation. > I guess my main point with this patch set is, we shouldn't be using > the terrible stdio API and suffering from its shortcomings when a > plain read and write work just as well if not better... > For educational purposes, stdio is probably the way to go. Proceed, though, +1. cheers! mar77i
