Martin Kühne wrote:
> stdout could print an api secret "[locked]" and the calling script could act
> upon that.
>
> slock | {
> read
> if [[ "$REPLY" = "[locked]" ]]; then
> suspend
> else
> yell at user or power off for added security
> fi
> }Heyho Martin, thats basically the same solution. It just uses another channel to signal the "locked" event from slock. I don't think any one is more powerful than the other and the fork exec solution seems to be cleaner. --Markus
