that's just cool

On 4/21/05, Tim Newsham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This one's from Mike Haertel as described in:
> 
>    http://tinyurl.com/arnnd
> 
> Thanks for Andrey for pointing this out.  You can establish a two
> way pipe to a command in /srv:
> 
>    $ cmd <[0=1] | echo 0 > /srv/name
> 
> and then access /srv/name to communicate with the command.  As
> an example:
> 
>    $ mail <[0=1] | echo 0 > /srv/mailcons
>    $ con -l /srv/mailcons
>    ... connected to mail until ^\ quit ...
>    $ con -l /srv/mailcons
>    ... connected again ...
> 
> will let you detach and re-attach to the pipe to a long-lived
> mail command.
> 
> Tim Newsham
> http://www.lava.net/~newsham/
>

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