On 3/11/2010 12:56 PM, Stein Somers wrote:
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).
Likewise, perl is just as good as the shell at starting programs on
pipes and manipulating file descriptors. One program could read from or
write to a pipe within your perl code.
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Les Mikesell
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