From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 27 16:25:55 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60774106564A for ; Mon, 27 Sep 2010 16:25:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhellenthal@gmail.com) Received: from mail-fx0-f54.google.com (mail-fx0-f54.google.com [209.85.161.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDE0B8FC1F for ; Mon, 27 Sep 2010 16:25:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm9 with SMTP id 9so3762616fxm.13 for ; Mon, 27 Sep 2010 09:25:53 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:sender:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to :x-enigmail-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=J8TVZ4r6l/PNj66vONBWzB/1oA5KFC86nuyzNbMnkTk=; b=EToWl6rBx+tg2rT3Z0rfEvESbGndbMTIE+/9RT1Xb2YFDHs6zA7wVcQqglvFYmxAwv NIUmO/5txEGyLt1TO71JhGzdgPGXWFw3tj2AMuOZ9ZefNTBo6ZDUfOWhhTk1kS+ra3tU ACpID1LOYkfNx87WIODdi90DaoasHrETpMzk4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=sender:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=IdorcKA7TCGRuTcGEhjmX4RJZUbFY0W32HcgiDpvITAGjxXT+ymrZvIpfSW6TjxTcj OeLobk5IDF2BnXwMMkwDV2j2O+v2snNxcBM6lp4+JfzSH/r9qDeENMGc0iXAOYVskRXV WcsiaSRq3ynaYDo6Iia/21fas7jaacWyg0yGs= Received: by 10.223.112.199 with SMTP id x7mr7811357fap.101.1285604753704; Mon, 27 Sep 2010 09:25:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from centel.dataix.local ([99.181.158.110]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id a7sm2517446faa.45.2010.09.27.09.25.52 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 27 Sep 2010 09:25:52 -0700 (PDT) Sender: "J. Hellenthal" Message-ID: <4CA0C58E.5000300@DataIX.net> Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 12:25:50 -0400 From: jhell User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.9.2.9) Gecko/20100917 Lightning/1.0b1 Thunderbird MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Buganini References: In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD Current Subject: Re: Parallelized scripting X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 16:25:55 -0000 On 09/26/2010 21:51, Buganini wrote: > Hi, I just wrote a rough C program that may help to do parallelized > scripting, for example, parallelized rc.d scripts. > > http://github.com/buganini/brackets > > in this way it is easy to use, no need to escape argv for multiple times. > > > any comments are welcomed. Have any real test cases against the base system where this has an advantage? What purpose does this serve in our current & future environments? Would this be better suited as a port or as a part of another larger toolchain? Has this been done already and re-incarnated here? Also style(9) is in direct need here. -- jhell,v