[22707] in Athena Bugs
Re: linux 9.1.27: update_ws
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Mon Jun 30 12:34:54 2003
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@mit.edu>
Cc: bugs@mit.edu
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Date: 30 Jun 2003 12:34:51 -0400
Yeah, known problem. The simplest fix is probably to use a flag file,
which is simple enough, but I've never gotten around to it. (When
you're running shell code of the form "a | b; c" it's very difficult to
communicate information from a to c through normal shell constructs.
You can do it with pipes but it looks awful. So, the filesystem is the
simplest way I know of.)
