[Swift-devel] problems with external dependencies

[Ben Clifford]

ok I'll have a play with the below. But not until you send me the log file 
where the code I sent you doesn't work for you but does work for me.

On Mon, 23 Mar 2009, Michael Wilde wrote:

> 
> On 3/23/09 2:18 PM, Ben Clifford wrote:
> > On Mon, 23 Mar 2009, Michael Wilde wrote:
> > 
> > > Passing 2000 outputs from the simuation to the analysis routine causes
> > > wrapper.sh to be invoked with values of DIRS and/or INF that exceed the
> > > max
> > > allowed command line length (which I think is 128KB on the bgp).
> > > 
> > > Its primarily the error causes by this length limit that Im trying to work
> > > around here.
> > 
> > It might not be too hard to make wrapper.sh take its inputs from a file,
> > which would then scale much better. I've certainly thought about it before.
> 
> Cool. Can you do the best-of-both-worlds, passing short to modest size lists
> as we do today, and only using files for INF and DIRS when they are very long?
> 
> Eg, if the first char of dirs is ` as in `listofdirs` then wrapper.sh reads
> them from file "listofdirs". Otherwise, I would fear that we're stepping
> backwards on the path of eliminating file operations in the app-calling path.
> 
> > 
> > Would your app be able to cope ok if wrapper.sh did not have this problem?
> 
> Yes, I think so, but surprises are possible.
> 
> > (or would it also have the same command-line length problems?)
> 
> No, it avoided command-line length limitations from the start by only placing
> the first file name in the struct-array on the command line, to serve as a
> pattern for the script, which knows how to find the full set of files, by
> naming convention.
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