[rfc] sed option `-i' (edit in place)

[Mike Frysinger]

On Monday 27 August 2007, Johan Adolfsson wrote:
> Wouldn't we get reduced wearing and possibly a general speed up as well,
> if we made sure sed was buffering stuff more and avoiding small writes
> to the filesystem?
> Then there shouldn't be much difference in flash wearing compared to a
> copy.

any decent flash filesystem will handle these details at the kernel level
-mike
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