On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 05:43:25PM +0530, Vishwanath Patil wrote: > i want to use lftp as a back-end that downloads files from a ftp > server at a particular time with particular rate. The issue now is i > want to integrate this into another piece of application or control it > from that application. I tried using shared memory and diverted the > readline to shared memory. Now i can give any command from there and > lftp executed it.
> But i think i dont need to add this or i feel that this is not the > best way. Can i use the .so files to call the functions and reach my > requirement. I want to know how to compile and link the example files > in the src directory. You can create a module which would do what you want (that is download some files with some rate) and report its status in a particular way (with shared memory or anything). The module could register a command which does what you want. Then you can feed that command with arguments to stdin of lftp and the command reports its status to your application. -- Alexander..
