SVR3 Utilities (Was: Re: small bug in who(1) of SVR3)

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <18948 at rpp386.cactus.org> jfh at rpp386.cactus.org (John F Haugh II) writes:
>Well, I do doubt it.  Here is a collection of examples.  It should be
>obvious that the pipe loses out over the single C command.

Sure, running the general merge-sort utility sure slows it down.
But 'who|wc -l' is so close in performance on this (relatively puny)
system that it would take a practically infinite number of invocations
before it would repay the resources that would have to be spent to
install the special-purpose who -q hack.  That, after all, was the
point of the comments against such hacks.