On Thu, Apr 04, 2024 at 02:38:02PM +0200, Martin Husemann wrote: > > Since the original comment hints at "instead of temp files" it is pretty > clear that the second variant is meant. This avoids all file system operations > and if the machine you run on has enough free memory it might not even > actually > touch swap space. >
Why not stat the input file and decide to use in memory iff the file is small enough? This way sort will handle large sorts on small memory machines automatically. -- Brett Lymn -- Sent from my NetBSD device. "We are were wolves", "You mean werewolves?", "No we were wolves, now we are something else entirely", "Oh"
