Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: [PATCH] arch speedups on big trees

[Aaron Bentley]

On Thu, 2004-01-08 at 09:27, Chris Mason wrote:
> 
> So as soon as the diff program makes output, we open the tmp file?
> 
> Because of arch_binary_files_differ(), we are 100% sure diff is going to
> have output.  So just open the tmp file to start with and make life easy
> ;)

Sure, but most tools can accept data on stdin, so in theory you don't
even need a tmp file.  Or are we using some utility that won't play
ball?

Aaron

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Aaron Bentley
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