[pca] read uname/showrev/pkginfo data from stdin

[David Stark]

Asif Iqbal wrote:
> Is there a way for pca to read the uname/showrev/pkginfo  data from 
> stdin instead of from a file?
> 
> I am running hobbit (http://hswn.dk/hobbit/) which collects all the 
> uname/showrev/pkginfo
> data and keeps it in the memory for my 500 hosts.
> 
> I can make 500 /tmp/hostname dir and have the pca read it from each of 
> those /tmp/hostname files.
> 
> But it would be lot faster if I could feed that data directly to pca 
> through stdin.
> 
> It would make the pca report generation lot faster.
> 
> Also I like to hear some other suggestion(s).

In the current absence of any other ideas, you create a single 
/tmp/pca-pipes dir, then
$ mkfifo /tmp/pca-pipes/{uname,showrev,pkginfo}'
then just echo or redirect the data into those named pipes to be read 
by PCA.

Probably not as fast as an anonymous pipe, but faster than creating 
real files, since you'd only have to make the fifos once, and  can 
re-use them for each host.

Just a thought.

Dave

> Thanks
> 
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