The post-commit hook starts a single process, and eats its STDOUT.
But you can make that single process into whatever you want. If you hook
script is for instance:
#!/bin/sh
perl watch-file.pl | perl notify.pl
then your hook consists of a shell process and two perl processors
working together. SVN doesn't know anything about the STDOUT produced by
watch-file.pl. It still eats the STDOUT that notify.pl produces -
someone has to. The commit is finished when notify.pl is done (more or
less).
--
Stein
