[arch-general] broken pipe

[Andy Pieters]

On Wed, 18 Dec 2019 at 15:32, Pascal via arch-general
<arch-general at archlinux.org> wrote:
>
> that's awesome, it works !
> it was so simple with cat taking over and consuming the data until the end !
> (I added a redirect to /dev/null to cat)
> big thank you.

I'm interested in the amount of effort you put into this. Isn't the
overhead of the pipes etc going to negate any memory/speed
improvements you may get from only opening the file once or is there
another consideration at play here?