Hello, I've recently done some work with Perl's C bindings and I'm ready to try something a bit bigger. I've always had an issue finding the proper container to run a game server in, be it Quake or in this case Mooege. The applications run on a console and that's great because having an X server hanging around would suck. The part that is always troublesome is that some times you'd need to type something on the console.
Enters screen, it's perhaps the most popular choice for this fact alone. However I've used log files and FIFOs for stdout/err and stdin for one reason, front-ends. Some times it's user invoked shell scripts and other times it's awk(ing) the output and writing commands for the input. This time I'd like to do a web front end, so the users can manage there game safely. All the while I was missing the conveyance of screen, if I actually wanted to be on the console I'd have to run tail in one window and cat into the FIFO on another. Here comes Perl, the idea here is that C(or perhaps even native Perl?) can be written to attach to a running screen session and shove in some key strokes. A full featured Perl module would be able to scrape the whole of screen's back buffer and stay on top of any new output. A good Perl API would also have all the keyboard macros screen would have and even abilities that screen it self doesn’t. To do this I'll need a good write up on how screen works. I've done some strace(ing) and peeked a bit at the git repo and I though I'd try asking. Thank you.
