Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!uwvax!oddjob!gargoyle!att!chinet!les
From: les@chinet.UUCP (Leslie Mikesell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Interactive Background Processes
Message-ID: <5953@chinet.UUCP>
Date: 6 Jul 88 18:14:22 GMT
References: <16365@brl-adm.ARPA>  <237@pigs.UUCP>
Reply-To: les@chinet.UUCP (Leslie Mikesell)
Organization: Chinet - Public Access Unix
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In article <237@pigs.UUCP> haugj@pigs.UUCP (Joe Bob Willie) writes:
>>> ...  Unfortunately, under Unix, selecting
>>> background processing precludes interactivity in the software.
>
>unfortunately, not all of the modern unix implementations have sxt's and
>the shell layer manager.

If all you need is to send an occasional command to a running program
you can just create a FIFO and connect the input of the program to it.
Then just write the commands to the FIFO as needed.  Knowing *when*
the commands are needed is a different problem...

Les Mikesell