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Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 19:40:20 -0600 (CST)
From: Rory Mulvaney <rorymulv@gmail.com>
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Subject: stream buffering
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I'm wondering if the reason that some I/O intensive zsh shell scripts 
aren't fast is mostly only because the I/O is (I think) line-buffered. 
Is there a way to do full buffering of streams, or what would be the best 
way to provide it?  Maybe a module similar to zsh/net/socket, perhaps 
using setvbuf(3)?

Also, thanks for the big help on my coproc question a little while ago.

Thanks in advance,
Rory