HEADS UP - master/slave ports

[Cyrille Lefevre]

"Dan Langille" <dan at langille.org> wrote:
> On 17 Jun 2004 at 16:50, Cyrille Lefevre wrote:
[snip]
> > there is no need to fork any sub-processes :
> > 
> > # Try to determine if we are a slave port.  These variables are used by
> > # FreshPorts and portsmon, but not yet by the ports framework itself.
> > _MASTERDIR=   ${MASTERDIR:C,/([^/]+)/\.\.,,:C,/([^/]+)/\.\.,,}
> > 
> > .if ${_MASTERDIR} != ${.CURDIR}
> > IS_SLAVE_PORT?=        yes
> > # take your pick :
> > # _PORTSDIR=    ${_MASTERDIR:C|([^/]+/[^/]+)/?$||}
> > # MASTERPORT=   ${_MASTERDIR:C|${_PORTSDIR}||}
> 
> real    15m24.018s
> user    10m39.785s
> sys     4m35.054s
> 
> > # or
> > MASTERPORT=     ${_MASTERDIR:H:T}/${_MASTERDIR:T}
> 
> real    15m23.343s
> user    10m39.088s
> sys     4m34.888s
> 
> > .else
> > IS_SLAVE_PORT?=        no
> > MASTERPORT=
> > .endif
> 
> These appear to be slightly faster than the previous stats I posted.  
> Everything is pratically identical in user time.  sys is where the 
> savings are being made. 

it's strange that this code (w/ no fork) is not much faster than 2 forks !

Ruslan, do you have any idea about that ?

CC -make maintainer

Cyrille Lefevre.
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