I have installed this and am closing the bug report.
arn...@skeeve.com wrote:
Testing for same inode is likely to work but not guaranteed. I think
it'd be better to compare the major and minor device numbers on the two
stat buffers. If they're equal then you know for sure you have a null
device in hand.
I considered that, but major and minor devi
Paul Eggert wrote:
> This sped up 'seq 100 | grep . >/dev/null' by a factor of
> 380,000 on my platform (Fedora 23, x86-64, AMD Phenom II X4 910e,
> en_US.UTF-8 locale).
> + else if (S_ISCHR (tmp_stat.st_mode))
> +{
> + struct stat null_stat;
> + if (stat ("
This sped up 'seq 100 | grep . >/dev/null' by a factor of
380,000 on my platform (Fedora 23, x86-64, AMD Phenom II X4 910e,
en_US.UTF-8 locale).
* NEWS: Document this.
* src/grep.c (grepbuf): exit_on_match no longer implies that -q
was specified, so when a match is found, exit with exit_fai
