From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri May 24 23:43:12 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA13122 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 24 May 1996 23:43:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dawn.ww.net (root@dawn.ww.net [193.124.73.50]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id XAA13117 for ; Fri, 24 May 1996 23:43:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from alexis@localhost) by dawn.ww.net (8.6.12/alexis 2.5) id KAA20208; Sat, 25 May 1996 10:42:48 +0400 Message-Id: <199605250642.KAA20208@dawn.ww.net> Subject: Re: APC Powerchute To: jfieber@indiana.edu Date: Sat, 25 May 1996 10:42:48 +0400 (MSD) From: Alexis Yushin Cc: j@uriah.heep.sax.de, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, sns@viaduk.net, green@fang.cs.sunyit.edu In-Reply-To: from John Fieber at "May 24, 96 09:14:20 am" Reply-To: alexis@ww.net (Alexis Yushin) X-Office-Phone: +380 65 2 26.1410 X-Home-Phone: +380 65 2 27.0747 X-NIC-Handle: AY23 X-RIPE-Handle: AY6-RIPE X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Once John Fieber wrote: [...] >subsequent polls out of whack. An option for variable length >command results would be helpful here (unless I it is already >there and I just missed it!) Yes! Actually I was thinking about something like prinf/scanf patterns for both commands and replies... I'll try to find some time to work on the daemon in the near future. alexis -- Yesterday don't matter when it's gone