Interactive Background Processes
Leslie Mikesell
les at chinet.UUCP
Thu Jul 7 04:14:22 AEST 1988
In article <237 at pigs.UUCP> haugj at pigs.UUCP (Joe Bob Willie) writes:
>>> ... Unfortunately, under Unix, selecting
>>> background processing precludes interactivity in the software.
>
>unfortunately, not all of the modern unix implementations have sxt's and
>the shell layer manager.
If all you need is to send an occasional command to a running program
you can just create a FIFO and connect the input of the program to it.
Then just write the commands to the FIFO as needed. Knowing *when*
the commands are needed is a different problem...
Les Mikesell
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