Tue, 14 Nov 2006, by raven@accesscomm.ca:
On 2006-11-14 15:33, Theo v. Werkhoven wrote:
$ mkfifo sig
$ l sig prw-r--r-- 1 theo users 0 Nov 14 22:29 sig|
$ while [ 1 ];do uptime >sig;done &
$ read sigline < sig
$ echo $sigline
OK, but that is hardly useful in the context of this thread. Since I cannot simply tell Mozilla/Seamonkey/Thunderbird to insert the result of running uptime, I can hardly tell it to execute "read sigline".
I thought the questioneer's problem was that he didn't know how to use FIFos. That was what my answer was for.
The end result must be a file, and I do not know if a named pipe qualifies as a file in mozilla's language. If it does, then I can just insert "sig" as the signature file, but I am not prepared to go through the exercise. I will leave that to Hylton, if he is interested.
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