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From: George Michaelson <ggm@algebras.org>
To: TUHS main list <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Re: If forking is bad, how about buffering?
Date: Wed, 15 May 2024 08:08:49 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKr6gn0Dm+qc+jM6UTfwe0oZGEXC5tY91e49KNFjps0q0nNS2w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKzdPgwr6=vND7vF-3+Amof=WEf6fqCN2gOsPmXB0_9Gy9U_rA@mail.gmail.com>

Maybe dd is the right place to decide how to buffer?  It appears to
understand thats part of it's role. I use mbuffer, and I have
absolutely no idea if its proffered buffer, scatter/gather, SETSOCKOPT
behaviour does or does not improve things but I use it, even though
netcat exists...

G

  parent reply	other threads:[~2024-05-14 22:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-05-13 13:34 [TUHS] " Douglas McIlroy
2024-05-13 22:01 ` [TUHS] " Andrew Warkentin
2024-05-14  7:10 ` Rob Pike
2024-05-14 11:10   ` G. Branden Robinson
2024-05-15 14:42     ` Dan Cross
2024-05-15 16:42       ` G. Branden Robinson
2024-05-19  1:04         ` Bakul Shah via TUHS
2024-05-19  1:21           ` Larry McVoy
2024-05-19  1:26             ` Serissa
2024-05-19  1:40             ` Bakul Shah via TUHS
2024-05-19  1:50               ` Bakul Shah via TUHS
2024-05-19  2:02               ` Larry McVoy
2024-05-19  2:28                 ` Bakul Shah via TUHS
2024-05-19  2:53                 ` Andrew Warkentin
2024-05-19  8:30                   ` Marc Rochkind
2024-05-19  2:26             ` Andrew Warkentin
2024-05-19 16:04           ` Paul Winalski
2024-05-14 22:08   ` George Michaelson [this message]
2024-05-14 22:34 ` Bakul Shah via TUHS
2024-05-19 10:41 ` Ralph Corderoy

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