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- From: Tom Christiansen <tchrist@convex.COM>
- Subject: Re: Making ``.plan'' EXECUTE a Program ???
- Message-ID: <1992Jul23.161949.579@news.eng.convex.com>
- Originator: tchrist@pixel.convex.com
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- Organization: CONVEX Realtime Development, Colorado Springs, CO
- References: <1992Jul21.200454.3795@ccu.umanitoba.ca> <bharat.711752774@Xenon.Stanford.EDU> <1992Jul23.121607.23500@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu>
- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 16:19:49 GMT
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- From the keyboard of sadkins@bigbird.cs.ohiou.edu (Scott W. Adkins):
- :In article <bharat.711752774@Xenon.Stanford.EDU> bharat@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Bharat Shyam) writes:
- :>Make your .plan a named pipe. (See "man mknod"). then have a program
- :>that writes to it. It will sleep until the finger daemon reads from it,
- :>whence your prog will be awakened and the finger daemon will read
- :>what your program is writing.
- :
- :Also, check the finger man page to make sure that it will actually support
- :pipes. The version of finger on my system, running Ultrix v4.2 specifically
- :ignores any .plan and .project files that is not a regular file (i.e. a named
- :pipe or a symbolic/hard link). Here is a sample from the man page here...
- :
- : The user's .plan or .project file cannot be a link to another file. If
- : either of these files is something other than a regular file, it will be
- : ignored.
- :
- :At least on the other Unix system I have access to, Sun OS Unix, it allows
- :such things. It it is worth while checking first though....
-
- A hard link to a regular file remains a regular file. The on-disk inode
- refcount is simply non-singular.
-
- --tom
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