Hello Jonathan!
On Wednesday 03 August 2011, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> Philipp Marek wrote:
> > I think that on sockets, pipes, character devices, and similar there
> > should be _no_ readahead.
>
> On the contrary, on sockets and pipes, readahead is very useful.
> Luckily buffering there works a
Philipp Marek wrote:
> I think that on sockets, pipes, character devices, and similar there should
> be _no_ readahead.
On the contrary, on sockets and pipes, readahead is very useful.
Luckily buffering there works a little closer to what you would expect
--- read() returns early with what is av