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Re: [libextractor] Input file stdin
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Christian Grothoff |
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Re: [libextractor] Input file stdin |
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Thu, 5 Sep 2019 02:39:26 +0200 |
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Hi!
In theory this is possible, but not really in a nice way: some files
must be parsed in non-sequential order, so the only way to handle a
stream would be to read it *entirely* into memory and then process that.
For large streams, this would be extremely inefficient (in terms of RAM
usage). Hence, it is likely safer to just write the stream to a
(temporary) file and process it from there.
That said, I'm not opposed to accepting a patch if someone has a
use-case where temporary files are unacceptable *and* keeping the entire
stream in memory is actually fine.
Happy hacking!
Christian
On 9/3/19 1:44 PM, Raphaël Bazaud wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Is it planned to handle stdin as input file e.g. by using `-' as
> filename ? I do not know itf that's even possible however it could be a
> nice addition to an already nice tool ;-)
>
> --
> Raphaël Bazaud
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