writing on disk it can eat away all the space I have on my device and make
other processes that need that disk space to fail. Even if disk is cheap
doesn't mean it's always plentifully available

Pier Paolo Grassi


Il giorno gio 30 set 2021 alle ore 21:50 Dominik Vogt <dominik.vogt@gmx.de>
ha scritto:

> On Thu, Sep 30, 2021 at 09:17:06PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > There's another major issue: since there is no blocking, this can take
> > much disk space. Thus such a function must not be used in a case one
> > may be interested only in the beginning of the output.
>
> But ... even if you never press "F" in less to read the rest of
> the input it's going to be stored somewhere, either in memory or
> on disk.  What's the point in worrying bout temporry disk space?
>
> Ciao
>
> Dominik ^_^  ^_^
>
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> Dominik Vogt
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