Daniel Macks writes ("Multiple 'dpkg --compare-versions' in one process"):
> I've got a script that needs to do several thousand comparisons of
> debian version-strings. Is there way for 'dpkg --compare-versions' (or
> a work-alike) to be spawned for an interactive session or a daemon,
> and handle multiple checks via pipe or socket communication?If it's really only thousands then just spawning dpkg each time should be fine. I just did a test of 2896 invocations of dpkg --compare-versions and it took 7.6s of real time on my 2GHz Athlon. <troll> If it's still too slow then you should complain to the glibc maintainers; `strace dpkg --compare-versions a lt b' shows a lot of pratting about which could probably be got rid of. Subprocess execution is supposed to be blindingly fast. </troll> Ian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
