Re: [Nmh-workers] m_getfld() interface

[Paul Vixie]

On 2012-12-25 5:59 PM, David Levine wrote:
> ...
> I created an m_getfld branch and made those changes.
>
> Then for fun, I replaced all that stdio buffer nastiness in
> m_getfld.c with a single call to fread() and then some
> almost straightforward buffer manipulations.  It passes the
> test suite and seems to perform the same (even 1-2% percent
> faster), so I committed to the branch.

:-).

> There are plenty of ways to improve what's there, but I
> think this is a step forward and doesn't give up anything.
> Needlesstosay, it needs to be reviewed.

can you hum a few bars of "how vixie gets a snapshot of that branch into
his home directory somehow" ?

paul