Pass arguments to pylint child process via a pipe.

third_party/pylint.py

 #!/usr/bin/env python
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 """ Copyright (c) 2002-2008 LOGILAB S.A. (Paris, FRANCE).
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+
+Copyright (c) 2012 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved.
 """
 import sys
 from pylint import lint
-lint.Run(sys.argv[1:])
+
+args = sys.argv[1:]
+
+# Add support for a custom mode where arguments are fed line by line on
+# stdin. This allows us to get around command line length limitations.
+ARGS_ON_STDIN = '--args-on-stdin'
+if ARGS_ON_STDIN in args:
+  args = [arg for arg in args if arg != ARGS_ON_STDIN]
+  for arg in sys.stdin:
+    arg = arg.strip()
+    if arg:

[M-A Ruel, 2012/06/22 15:26:41]

Do you think empty args are a problem? If not, you could simplify the loop with:

args.extend(arg.rstrip() for arg in sys.stdin)

[chrisha, 2012/06/22 17:05:11]

(No, I suppose I'm not really worried about this.)

Done.

+      args.append(arg)
+
+lint.Run(args)