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

[Asif Iqbal]

On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 3:37 AM, Martin Paul <martin at par.univie.ac.at>wrote:

> 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.
>

How about running multiple copies of pca since I will have about 500
/tmp/hostnameX  dirs to analyze?



>
> Martin.
>
>


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