From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 13:44:08 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fmt-merge-msg: avoid open "-|" list form for Perl 5.6
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0602241440330.9461@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <20060224120225.GE12309@localdomain>

Hi,

On Fri, 24 Feb 2006, Eric Wong wrote:

> Writing and reading from a tempfile are very fast for me in Linux, and 
> probably not much slower than pipes.

Sorry, but no. Really no. Pipes have several advantages over temporary 
files:

- The second program can already work on the data before the first 
  finishes.
- Most simple temp file handling has security issues.
- You need write access.

Hth,
Dscho