Re: [Nmh-workers] m_getfld branch merged

[David Levine]

Ken wrote:

> Ok, I'm wondering about this ... I see that the big
> difference at least from a system call trace is the calls
> to lseek(), which I guess are resulting from calls from
> fseek() or ftell().  So do a lot of nmh programs use
> fseek() to change the stream pointer mid-stream?  I ask
> because maybe programs like scan could tell m_getfld()
> that they don't need to keep track of that stuff (or the
> programs that care about that could tell m_getfld () that
> they do care about that).

Right, inc/scan could get away without it.  I'll look into
it, it shouldn't be difficult to slip in a bypass for them.

Did you notice the number of calls to open(2) for a MIME
message?  One per part, plus the seek to the start of the
part.  parse_mime() needs tilling.  Most the mh* programs
rely on it.

David