Re: [coreutils] [PATCH] maint: refactor to use read-file from gnulib

[Jim Meyering]

Pádraig Brady wrote:
> Removes 100 lines of tricky code.
...
> Subject: [PATCH] maint: refactor to use read-file from gnulib
>
> * bootstrap.conf: Add the read-file module
> * ptx.c: Replace the original code which would
> needlessly read SIZE_MAX bytes of files larger than this.
> * shuf.c: Replace the original code.
> ---
>  bootstrap.conf |    1 +
>  src/ptx.c      |   80 +++----------------------------------------------------
>  src/shuf.c     |   48 +++------------------------------
>  3 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 118 deletions(-)

Nice.  It's not often we can remove so much code like that.

I glanced through it (looks fine), applied it, built
and ran a few smoke tests.

Push at will ;-)

Thanks!