From: wren a. <wr...@fr...> - 2005-06-19 04:02:36
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A couple thoughts about fifos re paperboy-config: (Assuming I understand the setup correctly) Since which fifo is read from and which is written to depends on if you're looking from the daemon's point of view or from the handler's, I suggest we rename them to be more descriptive to disambiguate which is which. (I also suggest hyphenation for legibility.) Perhaps something like "--fifo-daemon" (for where the handler writes "to the daemon") and "--fifo-handler" ("to the handler"). The default values should prolly be renamed to match ("paperboy-fifo-daemon", "paperboy-fifo-handler"). Also, I'm not sure where fifos are normally stored, but /etc seems like a strange default to me (it's where system configuration files are stored mainly). I think it'd also be good to keep them with the other miscellaneous files (i.e. "LIB_PREFIX") by default. We can keep FIFO_PREFIX in case they want to move them elsewhere, I'm just thinking as far as the default. -- Live well, ~wren |