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Re:Implementations of Cat(1) from Various Sources (2018) by g82918 on Sunday January 19, 2020 @03:24AM (#22090174)
Thank you, that bit was very interesting. I like the idea for single threaded applications of having argv0 be a global.
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Re:Implementations of Cat(1) from Various Sources (2018) by sherincall on Sunday January 19, 2020 @07:04AM (#22090945)
Doesn't have to be single-threaded even. Main writes the pointer at the start, and no one else is going to change it, just read from it.
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