Previously if you wanted to create lots of jobs from a script (e.g. PHP)
you had to run create_work once per job.
With the --stdin option you run it once,
passing it a file (view stdin) with one line per job.
Each line can specify a command line and/or a set of input files.
On my server this gives a performance of about 1000 jobs per minute,
which is less than I would have expected,
but all the time is spent in doing MySQL inserts
so that's as good as we can do for now.
Also fix a bug in stage_file.
The docs said that putting <gzip/> for a file in your input template
would cause it to be transferred in gzip form.
But most of the server-side implementation was missing.
- in process_input_template(), parse <gzip/>,
and add <gzipped_url> elements to the output.
- stage_file was generating MD5 cache files containing only the MD5,
but process_input_template() expected them to contain file size as well.
Change stage_file to write both,
and change process_input_template() to write an error message
if it finds a bad MD5 file.
- remove stuff from process_input_template() related to
"generated_locally", a feature that doesn't exist anymore.
David Anderson