My .procmailrc pipes certain messages to a bash script that just certain sound files based on the arguments passed. The script doesn't read stdin.
I noticed lots of "Error while writing to..." in the procmaillog, and the manpage says this means can't write to file or pipe terminated early. So, I added a "cat - > /dev/null" line to the script and the errors stopped. I have two questions: (1) Can I count on procmail always writing at least one byte to my stdin so the script won't hang? (2) Can you think of a more elegant solution to "throw away" all of stdin without hanging if its empty? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
