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To: torvalds@transmeta.com (Linus Torvalds)
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Subject: Re: horrible disk thorughput on itanium
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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Date: 07 Dec 2001 14:54:49 +0100
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torvalds@transmeta.com (Linus Torvalds) writes:
> 
> "putc()" is a standard function.  If it sucks, let's get it fixed.  And
> instead of changing bonnie, how about pinging the _real_ people who
> write sucky code?

It is easy to fix. Just do #define putc putc_unlocked
There is just a slight problem: it'll fail if your application is threaded
and wants to use the same FILE from multiple threads.

It is a common problem on all OS that eventually got threadsafe stdio. 
I bet putc sucks on Solaris too.

-Andi

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