On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 10:20 PM, Serafeim Zanikolas <s...@debian.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 11:52:49PM +0100, Serafeim Zanikolas wrote:
>> On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 08:15:32PM +0800, Daniel Hartwig wrote:
>> > On 17 March 2013 19:56, Serafeim Zanikolas <s...@debian.org> wrote:
>> > > On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 02:14:50PM +0800, Daniel Hartwig wrote:
>> > >> The data can be passed through an open fd, similar to dpkg --status-fd
>> > >> argument.  Then there are no issues due to filesystems global
>> > >> namespace and it removes the fs as an unrequired middle-man.
>> > >
> [..]
>> Attached the updated patches for apt and apt-listbugs, which implement
>> Daniel's proposal of using an fd rather than a fifo.
>
> Ping? Is there anything blocking the application of this patch?

So (just for the record), after discussing this a bit at DebConf it seems like
we could apply the attached patch to APT, which is hopefully fine for everyone.


Best regards

David Kalnischkies

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