Andrew Apted wrote:
> Mhub is a very nifty program, so much so I'm gonna start using it all
> the time, and finally have gpm and X both able to use the mouse.
> Sweet. Doesn't belong as a mere "demo" IMO.
Well, LibGII doesn't really have enough "demos" to warrant more than
one directory IMHO. And mhub is already installed together with it's
man-page by 'make install'. Or do you mean it should be distributed
as a separate application?
> The only problem I had with it was figuring out that you have to use
> "mknod /foo/bar p" before running it. Now it wouldn't be too hard to
> stat() the file, check if it exists, and call mknod(2) when it doesn't
> (saving the user the hassle). Shall I code that up, or is there some
> security or portability implications that make it a bad idea ?
The only implication I can think of is that you'd have to add an
option to tell whether you want a pipe instead of a file created
when it's missing.
//Marcus
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