Change #264212

Category	gcoreutils
Changed by	Collin Funk <collin.funk1ohnoyoudont@gmail.com>
Changed at	Sat 11 Apr 2026 07:44:22
Repository	git://git.savannah.gnu.org/coreutils.git
Project	gcoreutils
Branch	master
Revision	9a3479f1ea026f67f36dd690871f85e5163fc6c5

Comments

cat: avoid redundant pipe creation and resizing
* src/cat.c (splice_cat): Don't bother resizing input as it generally
doesn't help perf, and also save an fstat per input. Don't close the
intermediate pipe once created, unless there is an error reading from
it.

Co-authored-by: Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>

Changed files

src/cat.c