From: Zefram <zefram@dcs.warwick.ac.uk>
To: pws@ifh.de (Peter Stephenson)
Cc: rjones@ptc.com, zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu
Subject: Re: more problems w/ irix
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 15:08:42 +0000 (GMT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <24405.199611141508@stone.dcs.warwick.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <199611141001.LAA19816@hydra.ifh.de> from "Peter Stephenson" at Nov 14, 96 11:01:54 am
>I have a horrible feeling all that OPEN_MAX stuff was actually
>irrelevant... struct multio can only hold MAXREDIRECT redirections,
>normally 16; trying <* where there are more than 16 expanded files
>simply isn't supposed to work. I've added the test and now it won't
>work. I've documented this.
I've been meaning to do something about that for a while now.
>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.
-zefram
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1996-11-14 15:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-11-13 17:23 Ray Jones
1996-11-13 18:38 ` Bart Schaefer
1996-11-13 18:43 ` rjones
1996-11-14 10:01 ` Peter Stephenson
1996-11-14 15:08 ` Zefram [this message]
1996-11-14 15:23 ` Richard Coleman
1996-11-14 15:38 ` Zefram
1996-11-14 16:05 ` Richard Coleman
1996-11-15 11:09 ` Peter Stephenson
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