Vitaly added the comment: Also, attempting to read a 1MB chunk of data in a single os.read call forces os.read() to unnecessarily allocate a huge !MB buffer (even if only for a short lifetime). Using something like 4KB read calls in a loop is more practical (and looping is necessary anyway).
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