From 358e75301071df3b3566ba643ff2cff40e2c5fb4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: David Wilson <dw@botanicus.net>
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2016 17:04:04 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Don't keep buffer of all previously received data.

---
 econtext/master.py | 4 +---
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/econtext/master.py b/econtext/master.py
index 1d61496f..df613862 100644
--- a/econtext/master.py
+++ b/econtext/master.py
@@ -80,13 +80,11 @@ def read_with_deadline(fd, size, deadline):
     raise econtext.core.TimeoutError('read timed out')
 
 def iter_read(fd, deadline):
-    buf = ''
     while True:
         s = os.read(fd, 4096)
         if not s:
             raise econtext.core.StreamError('EOF on stream; received %r', buf)
-        buf += s
-        yield buf
+        yield s
 
 
 def discard_until(fd, s, deadline):