Re: [jamboost] First cut at a SHELL command for bjam

From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-06-14 10:25:51

Hi Craig,

> I took a look at the source code for doxygen, which makes
> extensive use of popen() under Windows and Unix, and put something
> together for bjam.

And it works for Windows too. That's cool!

> I'm really new to Jam internals, and just put something together
> based on looking at the Jam C source code, so would appreciate
> any feedback.

I'm not sure making a separate list element for each chunk that fread returns 
is good. I'd use facilities from jam_src/string.h to build a big string and 
create 1-element list.

I'm also worried about the fact that potentially long output will be stored 
permanently in jam's string cache, but I see no way around this and anywhat 
it's not something you can fix.

Thanks,
Volodya

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