The ipccode works fine. I'm using it in Enigmail for piping to/from GnuPG. I have newer (development) version with a few enhancements at <https://sourceforge.net/p/enigmail/source/ci/master/tree/ipc/>
-Patrick On 23.12.12 10:24, Jonathan Protzenko wrote: > Patrick Brunschwig used to work on ipccode, the XPCOM library that is > able to read/write from a process's stdin/stdout. He uses it to > communicate with gpg for Enigmail (Thunderbird addon). > > http://hg.mozilla.org/ipccode/ > > I don't know what the status of this code is, but from reading > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=68702 it looks like it > works, it does precisely what you want, and it no longer requires C++ > parts since it's been rewritten using js-ctypes. > > Cheers, > > jonathan > > On Sun 23 Dec 2012 06:33:08 AM CET, Philip Chee wrote: >> On 23/12/2012 02:58, Ted Mielczarek wrote: >>> On 12/22/2012 1:02 PM, rvj wrote: >>>> its a while since I used the ns interfaces. I want to run >>>> >>>> gambit-enumpure < e02.nfg > numerate.txt >>>> >>>> how do I pass as arguments in nsiProcess? >>>> >>>> I asssume the file names must be prefixed with c:\\ >>>> >>>> is this correct? >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> *************************************************************************************** >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> var file = Components.classes["@mozilla.org/file/local;1"] >>>> .createInstance(Components.interfaces.nsILocalFile); >>>> >>>> file.initWithPath("c:\\gambit-enumpure.exe ") >>>> >>>> var process=Components.classes["@mozilla.org/process/util;1"] >>>> .createInstance(Components.interfaces.nsIProcess); >>>> >>>> process.init(file) >>>> >>>> var args = ["<","c:\\e02.nfg",">","c:\\numerate.txt"] >>>> >>>> process.run(true,args,args.length) >>>> >>>> >>> This will not work. the < and > are only parsed by a shell, they are not >>> true commandline arguments. nsIProcess does not run its arguments >>> through a shell, so you can't redirect things that way. I don't think we >>> have any platform support for running processes and redirecting their >>> I/O. >>> >>> -Ted >> >> Can you run a shell script using nsiProcess? Or even the shell (cmd, >> bash, etc) itself? >> >> Phil >> _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
