Re: more problems w/ irix

[Richard Coleman <coleman@math.gatech.edu>]

> >If <muffled but entirely audible whimper> anyone wants to remove the
> >limit, it would be possible to make the fds member a pointer, and
> >enlarge it as necessary.
> 
> I think the neatest way to handle it may be the struct hack, as the
> multios are already malloced.
> 
> >                          I have little enthusiasm.  It's a rather
> >inefficient way of processing a lot of files anyway.
> 
> It's a nice syntax.  If it's grossly inefficient, we should improve the
> code; being built in to the shell it *ought* to be more efficient than
> execing cat, at least for small files.

It doesn't exec a cat, it does the reading/writing itself (in closemn).
I'm not sure how we could make this more efficient without using something
like mmap().

rc