[Crash-utility] RFE: feedback loops

[Bruce Korb]

On 02/13/12 12:10, Dave Anderson wrote:
>> A relatively easy implementation would be to fiddle shell commands:
>>
>> 			if (LASTCHAR(p) == '|')
>> 				error(FATAL_RESTART, "pipe to nowhere?\n");
>>
>> to interpret pipes to nowhere to, instead, be redirecting to a mkstemp file
>> that gets read back in via an internal:
>>      sprintf(pc->command_line, "<  %s", tmp_file);
>> after the command completes, and
>>      unlink(tmp_file);
>> after *those* commands complete.
>>
>> What you already have works.  It's that this would be slick :).
>> It would make shell scripting into a crash extension language.
>
> Submit a patch and we'll take a look...

Sure.  You'll need to be patient tho.  Weeks, if not months.  :(