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| author |   rillig <rillig@NetBSD.org> | 2021-05-02 13:10:36 +0000 |
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| committer |   Cameron Katri <me@cameronkatri.com> | 2021-05-05 14:38:04 -0400 |
| commit | 2442661e769456700d67fac92056d18b3046633e (patch) | |
| tree | 50be9404a948d97f41c8e55a59ebb5a6b3eb309c | |
| parent | ccaf446a63995afde0c89b9c24ab8734e727bbf3 (diff) | |
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countmail: remove outdated comments
Using the shell builtin 'read' command was necessarily slow because it
is specified to read a single byte at a time.
| -rw-r--r-- | countmail/countmail | 25 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 22 deletions
diff --git a/countmail/countmail b/countmail/countmail index 539cebf2..17537bed 100644 --- a/countmail/countmail +++ b/countmail/countmail @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ #!/bin/sh -# $NetBSD: countmail,v 1.7 2008/04/28 20:22:53 martin Exp $ +# $NetBSD: countmail,v 1.8 2021/05/02 13:10:36 rillig Exp $ # # Copyright (c) 1998, 2002 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc. @@ -30,29 +30,10 @@ # POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. # -# Count the messages in your mailbox, using only POSIX shell builtins. +# Count the messages in your mailbox. # -# Caveats: -# -# The read loop is horrendously slow on every implementation I've -# tried. I suggest using from(1) and wc(1) instead, though these are -# not shell builtins. - -# for krb. -#set -- `from -t` -#v=$3 -set -- `from 2>/dev/null |wc -l` +set -- `from 2>/dev/null | wc -l` v=$1 -#v=`from | wc -l` - -#v=0 -#exec 0</var/mail/$USER -#while read line; do -# case "$line" in -# "From "*) v=$(($v + 1)) ;; -# esac -#done -#exec 0<&- set -- g=0 |