14:23 <beneroth> hi all

14:25 <Nistur> o7

14:25 <beneroth> o7 Nistur

14:31 <Regenaxer> Hi beneroth, Nistur!

14:33 <beneroth> Regenaxer, I might have forgotten... but how to open an interactive pipe to an external system command? like (call), but keeping a pipe like done with (pipe). but (pipe) is for pil subprocess. (in) and (out) are not bi-directional, are they? or should I do (in '("+command" ...)) ?

14:42 <Regenaxer> exec and pipe

14:43 <beneroth> ah

14:43 <beneroth> (pipe (exec ...))

14:43 <Regenaxer> eg in PilBox

14:43 <Regenaxer> (pipe (exec "@bin/ssl" *Hub 443 (pack *Inst "/!watnu?" ...

14:44 <Regenaxer> it gets an FD

14:44 <beneroth> awesome!

14:44 <beneroth> I'm testing

14:44 <Regenaxer> :)

14:44 <Regenaxer> Typical use is in a 'task'

14:44 <beneroth> here it is to use a cli database client. I'd like to keep an open connection, instead making connection anew for every query

14:45 <Regenaxer> right

14:45 <Regenaxer> another simple example is in 'mail'

14:45 <beneroth> so an FD would be perfect. no need for task I guess?

14:45 <beneroth> ah nice

14:46 <Regenaxer> Yes, task is only needed to wake up if data arrive asyncronously

14:47 <Regenaxer> Ah, the above is not in PilBox, but some PilBox apps, to synchronize the DB

14:48 <tankf33der> o/

14:48 <Regenaxer> Hi tankf33der!

14:50 <beneroth> Regenaxer, I see. thanks!

14:50 <beneroth> Hi tankf33der :D

14:57 <beneroth> Regenaxer, works beautifully!

14:58 <Regenaxer> Great! :)

14:58 <beneroth> (poll 'fd) is also good

14:59 <Regenaxer> Yeah, poor man's task handler ;)

14:59 <beneroth> though it returns 'fd when the subprocess stopped (so the 'fd is closed I guess?)

14:59 <beneroth> any way to check this, beside linux processes?

15:00 <Regenaxer> (read) returns NIL

15:00 <Regenaxer> Just like in 'task' I expect

15:15 <beneroth> bbl