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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: dmantipov@yandex.ru, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Using pread
Date: Sat, 02 Feb 2013 10:09:21 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83r4kzb0i6.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <510C7037.7080503@cs.ucla.edu>

> Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2013 17:47:35 -0800
> From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
> Cc: Emacs development discussions <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
> 
> On 02/01/2013 12:34 AM, Dmitry Antipov wrote:
> > IMHO it's worth using at least for some bits in fileio.c.
> 
> Is using pread significantly faster or safer, when pread is native?

AFAIU, its only advantage is when several threads might share a file
descriptor.  But if we consider this possibility for some future
extension, such as Tom's concurrency branch, then perhaps we should
modify emacs_read to use pread as well.

> If this is merely a style issue, it's probably not worth the bother.

I agree.



      reply	other threads:[~2013-02-02  8:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-02-01  8:05 Using pread Dmitry Antipov
2013-02-01  8:18 ` Paul Eggert
2013-02-01  8:34   ` Dmitry Antipov
2013-02-01 10:33     ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-02-02  1:47     ` Paul Eggert
2013-02-02  8:09       ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]

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