Thanks for the response. Everything you say makes sense.
Colin Blake wrote:
> [snip]
> A temp file class that only writes to disk if need be (basically a pipe with
> no size limitation) would make this implementation and execution much more
> elegant. You say something exists much isn't checked in yet?
>
Well, I've talked about needing the temp file abstraction for a long
time, but I don't see anything in the tree. Let me dig around, and in
the worst case I'll submit a bug on the need for the new class.