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Re: feature request: gzip/bzip support for sort
From: |
Jim Meyering |
Subject: |
Re: feature request: gzip/bzip support for sort |
Date: |
Thu, 18 Jan 2007 22:51:37 +0100 |
Jim Meyering <address@hidden> wrote:
> Dan Hipschman <address@hidden> wrote:
>> On Sat, Jan 13, 2007 at 10:07:59PM -0800, Paul Eggert wrote:
>>> 3. I can see where the user might be able to specify a better
>>> algorithm, for a particular data set. For that, how about if we have
>>> a --compress-program=PROGRAM option, which lets the user plug in any
>>> program that works as a pipeline? E.g., --compress-program=gzip would
>>> use gzip. The default would be to use "PROGRAM -d" to decompress; we
>>> could have another option if that doesn't suffice.
>>
>> This is pretty close. There is just a few more problems that I see:
>
> One more thing to consider:
>
> In your proposed patch, a failed fork evokes an immediate exit.
> In that case, it may be worthwhile to retry, or even to revert
> to using gzip directly.
Upon rereading, I see the latter part is not clear. I mean resorting
to the use of a direct (non-forking) implementation, like libz.
This, of course, assumes we're using gzip.
- Re: feature request: gzip/bzip support for sort, (continued)
- Re: feature request: gzip/bzip support for sort, Paul Eggert, 2007/01/16
- Re: feature request: gzip/bzip support for sort, Bauke Jan Douma, 2007/01/16
- Re: feature request: gzip/bzip support for sort, Dan Hipschman, 2007/01/16
- Re: feature request: gzip/bzip support for sort, Jim Meyering, 2007/01/18
- Re: feature request: gzip/bzip support for sort, Philip Rowlands, 2007/01/18
- Re: feature request: gzip/bzip support for sort, Jim Meyering, 2007/01/18
- Re: feature request: gzip/bzip support for sort, Philip Rowlands, 2007/01/18
- Re: feature request: gzip/bzip support for sort, Dan Hipschman, 2007/01/16
- Re: feature request: gzip/bzip support for sort, James Youngman, 2007/01/16
- Re: feature request: gzip/bzip support for sort, Jim Meyering, 2007/01/18
- Re: feature request: gzip/bzip support for sort,
Jim Meyering <=
- Re: feature request: gzip/bzip support for sort, Dan Hipschman, 2007/01/18
- Re: feature request: gzip/bzip support for sort, Dan Hipschman, 2007/01/18