[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: [Xen-devel] xen 4.4.0 unnecessary dependency on Perl
Ian Campbell writes ("Re: [Xen-devel] xen 4.4.0 unnecessary dependency on Perl"): > On Mon, 2014-07-28 at 21:25 +0100, Anthony Wright wrote: > > To me it would seem wise to minimise the number of xen's dependencies > > and so use Python instead or if speed is really important here, a custom > > C program. We have a custom Linux distro that includes xen and to us the > > size of the distro is very important. This single 8 line section of code > > introduces a dependency on Perl and so adds another 10M to 20M. > > Please send a patch. > > Now that xend is gone Python is reasonably optional as well I think > (it's needed for pygrub but not a lot else IIRC). In the absence of any > other suitable facilities in a base system that might point to a custom > C utility being the best approach, but you should probably wait for > other feedback (from Ian Jackson, CCd, in particular) before picking an > approach. The perl fragment there is comparing inode numbers. I think that can be done with stat(1). For the fd stdin, it can be done with `stat -L /dev/stdin'. Ian. _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel
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