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

Martin Paul martin at par.univie.ac.at
Mon May 11 09:37:09 CEST 2009


Asif Iqbal wrote:
> Is there a way for pca to read the uname/showrev/pkginfo  data from stdin
> instead of from a file?

No, there isn't.

> 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.

I'm not sure whether this would really speed things up. Creating the 
files in a tmpfs and reading from them should not be a lot of overhead, 
compared to the time pca itself needs for the analysis.

Martin.



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