Any chance you backport these changes onto the hg repo at mozilla.org? Cheers,
jonathan On Tue 25 Dec 2012 12:21:15 PM CET, Patrick Brunschwig wrote: > The ipccode works fine. I'm using it in Enigmail for piping to/from > GnuPG. I have newer (development) version with a few enhancements at > <https://sourceforge.net/p/enigmail/source/ci/master/tree/ipc/> > > -Patrick > > On 23.12.12 10:24, Jonathan Protzenko wrote: >> Patrick Brunschwig used to work on ipccode, the XPCOM library that is >> able to read/write from a process's stdin/stdout. He uses it to >> communicate with gpg for Enigmail (Thunderbird addon). >> >> http://hg.mozilla.org/ipccode/ >> >> I don't know what the status of this code is, but from reading >> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=68702 it looks like it >> works, it does precisely what you want, and it no longer requires C++ >> parts since it's been rewritten using js-ctypes. >> >> Cheers, >> >> jonathan >> >> On Sun 23 Dec 2012 06:33:08 AM CET, Philip Chee wrote: >>> On 23/12/2012 02:58, Ted Mielczarek wrote: >>>> On 12/22/2012 1:02 PM, rvj wrote: >>>>> its a while since I used the ns interfaces. I want to run >>>>> >>>>> gambit-enumpure < e02.nfg > numerate.txt >>>>> >>>>> how do I pass as arguments in nsiProcess? >>>>> >>>>> I asssume the file names must be prefixed with c:\\ >>>>> >>>>> is this correct? >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> *************************************************************************************** >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> var file = Components.classes["@mozilla.org/file/local;1"] >>>>> .createInstance(Components.interfaces.nsILocalFile); >>>>> >>>>> file.initWithPath("c:\\gambit-enumpure.exe ") >>>>> >>>>> var process=Components.classes["@mozilla.org/process/util;1"] >>>>> .createInstance(Components.interfaces.nsIProcess); >>>>> >>>>> process.init(file) >>>>> >>>>> var args = ["<","c:\\e02.nfg",">","c:\\numerate.txt"] >>>>> >>>>> process.run(true,args,args.length) >>>>> >>>>> >>>> This will not work. the < and > are only parsed by a shell, they are not >>>> true commandline arguments. nsIProcess does not run its arguments >>>> through a shell, so you can't redirect things that way. I don't think we >>>> have any platform support for running processes and redirecting their >>>> I/O. >>>> >>>> -Ted >>> >>> Can you run a shell script using nsiProcess? Or even the shell (cmd, >>> bash, etc) itself? >>> >>> Phil >>> > > _______________________________________________ > dev-platform mailing list > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
