Re: Official request: Please make GNU grep the default

On 2010-08-15 21:49, Dimitry Andric wrote:
> ...I
> have attached a more complete patch that:
> 
> - Replaces the horrendously inefficient grep_fgetln() with mostly the
>   same implementation as the libc fgetln() function.
> - Uses plain file descriptors instead of struct FILE, since the
>   buffering is done manually anyway, and it makes it easier to support
>   gzip and bzip2.
> - Let the bzip2 reader just read the file as plain data, when the
>   initial magic number doesn't match, mimicking the behaviour of GNU
>   grep.

Here is a new patch, updated against Gabor's changes in r211364.