Set up GUI stack on OSX server that handles STDIN/STDOUT

[Sannyasin Sivakatirswami]

General Question is:

How does one set up a stack on an OSX server that can act like a UNIX program where any other [Program A] can set a path:

/usr/sbin/myFilter.mc

where myFilter.mc is an open stack running in GUI mode,
such that output from Program A is read as standardIn incoming data by 'myFilter.mc" to which
myFilter.mc can send our responses which are seen by Program A
as data coming from myFilter.mc's standardOut?

Specific Context is:

We want to have more control over incoming email on the email server, not only for virus scanning but for many other purposes. Communigate Pro (our mail server) can set up a path to an external program and using its "External Filter API" which is a simple set or request/response codes, it will send a request to the external program and expect responses. I would like the external program to be a metacard stack if possible, with a GUI interface.

Is that doable? In this scenario Apache or any web CGI interfaces are not involved. But i think it must be a similar concept as Pierre Sohores "long running process"

i know how to use the faceless script to "read from stnin"

but how do you do that in a GUI stack ... which must be some how set up a pipe to "listen" ?

mmm. somehow. I think we may have come full circle here back to Metacard's roots?

examples stack and scripts would be very helpful...

Sannyasin Sivakatirswami
Himalayan Academy Publications
at Kauai's Hindu Monastery
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