[Nix-dev] Patch: Add a "--from-file" option to all nix commands

[Shea Levy]

This version of the patch uses tokenizeString to parse, and only 
tokenizes on newlines. This is STILL NOT TESTED, will report back once 
I've tested it.

~Shea

On 08/08/2011 02:52 PM, shea at shealevy.com wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> This patch adds and documents the "--from-file" option which allows
>> parsing a file (or stdin) for additional arguments to the command. Note
>> that this patch is NOT YET TESTED, I'm sending it here while I work on
>> figuring out how to build nix from SVN in the hopes that someone might
>> already be equipped to do so and might test it in the mean time.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Shea Levy
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> Forgot to mention why we care about this: This will allow us to avoid the
> "argument list too long" problem with the default remote builder hook by
> allowing us to send arguments via stdin.
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