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From: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
To: Peter Pentchev <roam@orbitel.bg>
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Peter Pentchev <roam@orbitel.bg> wrote:
>
>What I did was implement an 'exec' portal method, which executes a program
>with given arguments, obtained from the path components and portal.conf
>rules, and returns a - basically read-only - descriptor connected to its
>stdout and stderr.  Kind of simple, pipe(), fork(), dup2(), exec()..

Nice. Is there any reason not to add some bidirectional support by
connecting the descriptor to stdin as well?

Tony.
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