Re: new CVS module: bonobo-extra

[Dietmar Maurer <dietmar ximian com>]

ISO-8859-1 wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On 04 Jun 2001 21:40:21 +0200, Dietmar Maurer wrote:
> > I think we should discuss that on this list. So what do you want to add?
>
> I was thinking of my BonoboProcess and exec moniker stuff...
>
> ---
> BonoboProcess is a simple interface to system processes. It allows
> signals to be sent to an existing process, notification if process death
> (using EventSource), and getting at a process's stdin, out and err as
> BonoboStreams.
>
> I also created BonoboStreamFd, which is a Stream implementation for unix
> file descriptors.
>
> To make BonoboProcess useful, I created an exec moniker. It spits out a
> new BonoboProcess given a string of the form:
>
>         exec:"/usr/bin/foo -lala"
>
> Or, to execute on a remote host:
>
>         exec:"/usr/bin/foo -lala";host=cvs.gnome.org;rsh=ssh
>
> Or, to execute as another user:
>
>         exec:"/usr/bin/foo -lala";user=root;password=toor
>
> It also accepts a parent Stream or ProgressiveDataSink which gets used
> as STDIN for the created process.
> ---
>
> Anyways, there are a couple of open issues (security, and how the
> moniker should work), so I thought it would make a good addition to
> bonobo-extras.

Well, everything sounds useful :-) Where can I find the sources?

- Dietmar