[ale] slaving a process

Tue Mar 5 14:54:07 EST 2002

Actually Expect is not my friend.  I wanted to turn a process that is
usually run by telnet to a process that can be accessed from Jabber (or
some other IM). That is the purpose of this.

I rethought the solution a bit and realized I need to execute this with a
System call inside the perl instead of the shell script.  Any other
suggestions.  Can the parent process control what the child process's
STDIN and STDOUT file handle is.

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On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, Pete Hardie wrote:

> "Tommie M. Jones" wrote:
> >
> > I have a executable that I want to slave to a perl script.
> > Basically it is a menu driven compiled program... we will call it 'Menu'
> >
> > I have a perl script that I want the Menu program to read stanard input
> > too and write standard output too.
> >
> > The perl script I can change.  The menu program I cannot.
> >
> > So given this I was thinking along the lines of
> >
> > menu_driver.pl | Menu > /tmp/named_pipe.out
> >
> > and then have menu_driver.pl read from the named_pipe.
> >
> > Will this work.
> > Is there a better way.
>
> expect is your friend.  It's just the ticket for automating user input.
>
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