Re: State of the new config & build system

From: Larry McVoy (lm@bitmover.com)
Date: Fri Dec 28 2001 - 15:01:04 EST


On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 08:42:44PM +1100, Keith Owens wrote:
> "All" I need to do is have one server process that reads the big list
> once and the other client processes talk to the server. Much less data
> involved means faster conversion from absolute to standardized names.

Actually, if you use the mdbm code, you can have a server process which
reads the data, stashes it in the db, touchs ./i_am_done, and exits.
"client" processes do a

        while (!exists("i_am_done")) usleep(100000);
        m = mdbm_open("db", O_RDONLY, 0, 0);
        val = mdbm_fetch_str(m, "key");
        etc.

No sockets, no back and forth, runs at mmap speed.

If you tell me what the data looks like that needs to be in the DB, i.e.,
how to get it, I'll code you up the "server" side.

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Larry McVoy            	 lm at bitmover.com           http://www.bitmover.com/lm 
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