countmail: remove outdated comments

Using the shell builtin 'read' command was necessarily slow because it
is specified to read a single byte at a time.
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rillig 2021-05-02 13:10:36 +00:00
parent 1182a44c59
commit 2caa24ffff
1 changed files with 3 additions and 22 deletions

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#!/bin/sh
# $NetBSD: countmail,v 1.7 2008/04/28 20:22:53 martin Exp $
# $NetBSD: countmail,v 1.8 2021/05/02 13:10:36 rillig Exp $
#
# Copyright (c) 1998, 2002 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
@ -30,29 +30,10 @@
# POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
#
# Count the messages in your mailbox, using only POSIX shell builtins.
# Count the messages in your mailbox.
#
# Caveats:
#
# The read loop is horrendously slow on every implementation I've
# tried. I suggest using from(1) and wc(1) instead, though these are
# not shell builtins.
# for krb.
#set -- `from -t`
#v=$3
set -- `from 2>/dev/null |wc -l`
set -- `from 2>/dev/null | wc -l`
v=$1
#v=`from | wc -l`
#v=0
#exec 0</var/mail/$USER
#while read line; do
# case "$line" in
# "From "*) v=$(($v + 1)) ;;
# esac
#done
#exec 0<&-
set --
g=0