Re:How is GNU `yes` so fast?
by pbhjpbhj on Wednesday June 14, 2017 @09:52AM
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So how did that redirect even work; should we be doing a `mknod` to make a "yes" device to make the comparison work (can we, does it help other than in my naive imagination).
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Re:How is GNU `yes` so fast?
by BenjiWiebe on Wednesday June 14, 2017 @02:26PM
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The reason that redirect worked is because it was using the contents of the yes program instead of its output.