Re: [Crash-utility] RFE: feedback loops

> A relatively easy implementation would be to fiddle shell commands: > > if (LASTCHAR(p) == '|') > error(FATAL_RESTART, "pipe to nowhere?\n"); > > to interpret pipes to nowhere to, instead, be redirecting to a mkstemp file > that gets read back in via an internal: > sprintf(pc->command_line, "< %s", tmp_file); > after the command completes, and > unlink(tmp_file); > after *those* commands complete. > > What you already have works. It's that this would be slick :). > It would make shell scripting into a crash extension language. Submit a patch and we'll take a look...