michael@??? said:
> Calling alarm this often does not look correct to me. I doubt this
> causes my problems, but it is odd in itself.
Its doing something like
while(1) {
alarm(300); /* set timeout to read next line */
read_line();
process_line();
if finished
break;
}
alarm(0);
The read_line is reading from buffered stuff so you are seeing an
occaisional large read() in the strace rather than one read() per line.
Nigel.
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