Re: Coprocess

[Frank T. <ft...@ui...>]

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Billy Donahue, at 12:26 -0400 on Tue, 1 Aug 2000, wrote:

> I'm still thinking about the startup time of pgpenvelope.
> It's all the perl compiling.  It would be nice to have
> a persistent perl process running 'hot' alongside pine,
> The problem is killing it when pine dies.  I guess pine
> would be the parent pid or something...

Actually, it wouldn't be a problem; I'd simply have pgpenvelope call pine,
so it would wrapper around the pine session, exiting when pine exited.

> So there would be this daemon running for you, and
> there would be a short connector program which would be
> the actual pine filter.  Well, it's not easy, and I
> haven't thought it out too well, but I thought I'd see
> if anyone else is/was thinking about it.

Yes, I've thought about it, and it is a good idea, and it can probably be
implemented decently.  This is an important issue (especially for me on a
p200 :) ), but I have to research the issue.

BTW, hopefully you are using the procmail filter now; it certainly helps
on incoming mails :)

- -- 
Frank Tobin		http://www.uiuc.edu/~ftobin/
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