Turns out that being able to open an empty directory actually has its
uses:
- If you delete the last file in a directory, you now won't be directed
to the parent directory anymore. This allows keeping 'd' pressed
without worrying that you'll delete stuff outside of the current dir.
(This is the primary motivation for doing this)
- You can now scan and later refresh an empty directory, as suggested by
#2 in http://dev.yorhel.nl/ncdu/bug/15
Some measurements importing a gzip-compressed file (zcat .. | ncdu -f -)
containing a bit under 6 million items and a few choices of how often to
call input_handle():
Called on every item:
real 0m13.745s
user 0m12.576s
sys 0m4.566s
Called on every 8 items:
real 0m7.932s
user 0m9.636s
sys 0m1.623s
Called on every 16 items:
real 0m7.559s
user 0m9.553s
sys 0m1.323s
Called on every 32 items:
real 0m7.279s
user 0m9.353s
sys 0m1.277s
Called on every 64 items:
real 0m7.166s
user 0m9.389s
sys 0m1.117s
Called on every 256 items:
real 0m7.073s
user 0m9.439s
sys 0m1.027s
32 seemed like a good compromise.
- errors in item() didn't propagate properly
- empty [] and {} values weren't allowed
- fractional numbers weren't allowed
- parsing of escaped characters didn't ensure that enough data was in
the buffer
- E() didn't propagate errors properly in all cases
I'll do some more testing later on, but the current code seems to be
working quite well already.
