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files opened many times during scanning
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### Description
When running scancode with `strace` I can see that every file is opened 4 or 5 times and also read as many times accordingly. A small (filtered) snippet of `strace` output:
```
...
[pid 392633] openat(AT_FDCWD, "/tmp/rzip-2.1/rzip.c", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK) = 4
[pid 392633] openat(AT_FDCWD, "/tmp/rzip-2.1/rzip.c", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK) = 4
[pid 392633] openat(AT_FDCWD, "/tmp/rzip-2.1/rzip.c", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 4
[pid 392633] openat(AT_FDCWD, "/tmp/rzip-2.1/rzip.c", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 4
[pid 392633] openat(AT_FDCWD, "/tmp/rzip-2.1/rzip.c", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 4
[pid 392633] openat(AT_FDCWD, "/tmp/rzip-2.1/rzip.h", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK) = 4
[pid 392633] openat(AT_FDCWD, "/tmp/rzip-2.1/rzip.h", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK) = 4
[pid 392633] openat(AT_FDCWD, "/tmp/rzip-2.1/rzip.h", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 4
[pid 392633] openat(AT_FDCWD, "/tmp/rzip-2.1/rzip.h", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 4
[pid 392633] openat(AT_FDCWD, "/tmp/rzip-2.1/rzip.h", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 4
[pid 392633] openat(AT_FDCWD, "/tmp/rzip-2.1/rzip.yo", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK) = 4
[pid 392633] openat(AT_FDCWD, "/tmp/rzip-2.1/rzip.yo", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK) = 4
[pid 392633] openat(AT_FDCWD, "/tmp/rzip-2.1/rzip.yo", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 4
[pid 392633] openat(AT_FDCWD, "/tmp/rzip-2.1/rzip.yo", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 4
[pid 392633] openat(AT_FDCWD, "/tmp/rzip-2.1/rzip.yo", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 4
[pid 392633] openat(AT_FDCWD, "/tmp/rzip-2.1/rzipall", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK) = 4
[pid 392633] openat(AT_FDCWD, "/tmp/rzip-2.1/rzipall", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK) = 4
[pid 392633] openat(AT_FDCWD, "/tmp/rzip-2.1/rzipall", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 4
[pid 392633] openat(AT_FDCWD, "/tmp/rzip-2.1/rzipall", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 4
[pid 392633] openat(AT_FDCWD, "/tmp/rzip-2.1/stream.c", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK) = 4
[pid 392633] openat(AT_FDCWD, "/tmp/rzip-2.1/stream.c", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK) = 4
[pid 392633] openat(AT_FDCWD, "/tmp/rzip-2.1/stream.c", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 4
[pid 392633] openat(AT_FDCWD, "/tmp/rzip-2.1/stream.c", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 4
[pid 392633] openat(AT_FDCWD, "/tmp/rzip-2.1/stream.c", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 4
...
```
This seems a bit excessive. I haven't yet tried with really large files, but if these are also read multiple times (instead of data being shared between scans) it could get quite expensive.
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