Re: [libextractor] Input file stdin

[Christian Grothoff]

Hi!

In theory this is possible, but not really in a nice way: some files
must be parsed in non-sequential order, so the only way to handle a
stream would be to read it *entirely* into memory and then process that.

For large streams, this would be extremely inefficient (in terms of RAM
usage).  Hence, it is likely safer to just write the stream to a
(temporary) file and process it from there.

That said, I'm not opposed to accepting a patch if someone has a
use-case where temporary files are unacceptable *and* keeping the entire
stream in memory is actually fine.

Happy hacking!

Christian

On 9/3/19 1:44 PM, Raphaël Bazaud wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Is it planned to handle stdin as input file e.g. by using `-' as
> filename ? I do not know itf that's even possible however it could be a
> nice addition to an already nice tool ;-)
> 
> -- 
> Raphaël Bazaud

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