[PATCH/RFC] readahead applet

Bernhard Fischer rep.nop at aon.at
Mon Aug 21 16:35:20 UTC 2006


On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 12:18:07PM -0400, Rich Felker wrote:
>On Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 11:53:09AM +0200, Bernhard Fischer wrote:
>> On Sat, Aug 19, 2006 at 07:01:13PM +0200, Michael Opdenacker wrote:
>> >Hello,
>> >
>> >The attached patch against busybox 1.2.1 adds a new "readahead" applet.
>> 
>> Sounds useful to me.
>
>It does? Anyone care to explain how this is different/better than:

Well, it does, conceptually.
>
>'nice -n 20 cat "$file" > /dev/null &'

Whether you cat or dd likely is a mere implementation detail ;)

PS: nice -n 20 cat $* > /dev/null ;# to allow for lists



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