[p4] Automatically updating a website when Perforce depotcha nges? - Jon Biggar - com.perforce.perforce-user

6 messages in com.perforce.perforce-user[p4] Automatically updating a website...

From	Sent On	Attachments
Todd Short	13 Feb 2001 06:50
Marc Unangst	13 Feb 2001 08:50
Rob Jellinghaus	13 Feb 2001 09:31
James CE Johnson	13 Feb 2001 10:20
Jon Biggar	13 Feb 2001 13:12
Matthew Rice	16 Feb 2001 17:39

Subject:	[p4] Automatically updating a website when Perforce depotcha nges?
From:	Jon Biggar (jo...@floorboard.com)
Date:	02/13/2001 01:12:43 PM
List:	com.perforce.perforce-user

James CE Johnson wrote:

<off_topic>

I love Perl as much as the next guy but you're using an elephant gun to kill a mouse here... The system() function has to create a shell process to execute the command you're giving it. Use a shell script instead to save a few cycles:

while true do p4 sync //depot/... sleep 120 done

Actually, perl is smart enough to avoid spawning a shell from system() if the strings that you pass it don't contain any shell meta-characters...