Russ Allbery wrote: > > I used readdir and a regex match. The glob is probably also about as fast > with a current version of Perl that doesn't fork a shell to do the glob, > though. I learned my aversion to using globs in Perl back when they > involved forking an external csh binary, and probably should get over it.
Eww > >> Russ Allbery wrote: > >>> I'm committing now with some changes along those lines. I'm also >>> creating real files rather than symlinks to PIDs so that we can stick a >>> bit more information in the files. It's slightly slower (three >>> syscalls instead of one), but it means that we can put the generation >>> timestamp and the Lintian version into the file, which may be useful. > >> I guess the version could be of some use but the time stamp, if needed, >> can be retrieved via stat(). > > Yeah, it's redundant unless you do something weird like copy a lab around > without preserving timestamps. But it seems harmless to stick it in there > for the hell of it while I'm creating a file anyway. Yeah > > BTW, the parallel bits needed a fair bit of massaging to restore the > previous error handling capabilities. (I hope I got all of that right; I > didn't create a failing collect script to test that. I probably should > devise some way to do that in the test suite.) > Just tried to do that and found some bugs while at it, will file the reports in a moment. But error reporting seems to be working fine: warning: collect info strings about package binaries-embedded-zlib failed warning: skipping check of binary package binaries-embedded-zlib (added an exit 1 on collection/scripts) Cheers, -- Raphael Geissert - Debian Maintainer www.debian.org - get.debian.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
