[libvirt] consistency: push "update" hook vs. "make syntax-check"

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 03:14:30PM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote:
> > So using 'tail' instead of this perl script would be more readable
> > and efficient.
> 
> tail -c2 might be my choice, too, for a small number of files.
> But in our case, using it would incur the cost of 1000+ fork+execs.

I was thinking you'd just give it lots of files at once via xargs,
though then you have the tedium of parsing its output

Daniel
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