Tim Kientzle said: > One approach I prototyped sometime back was to use > libarchive in pkg_add as follows: > * Open the archive > * Read +CONTENTS directly into memory (it's > guaranteed to always be first in the archive)
I can only concur with that. In my program http://www.lpthe.jussieu.fr/~talon/check_pkg.py i discovered that memory mapping +CONTENTS and then working in memory before rewriting it was around 5 times faster than reading line by line and parsing each line. See function fix_pkg_database(). By the way i am writing a new +CONTENTS fileand then renaming it, which avoids leaving a mess if something goes astray like portupgrade does. -- Michel TALON _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
