For the first of these you can already use the tmux global environment or use user options which were added very recently you only need to worry about the second.
I do not see compelling uses that can't be solved with existing shell or Unix features, can you give us some examples? tmux is not a programming language or a shell so features need to fit with it's purpose :-). On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 10:19:45AM -0300, Thiago Padilha wrote: > There are some features I feel are missing in tmux: > > 1- Shared key value storage > > tmux shm set KEY VALUE # set a value > tmux shm get KEY VALUE [DEFAULT] # gets a value if exists, or set > and return a default value, if provided(in one atomic operation) > tmux shm pop KEY # pops a value > > 2- Shared/exclusive locks and semaphores: > > tmux lock shared KEY # blocks until a shared lock can be acquired on KEY > tmux lock exclusive KEY # blocks until a exclusive lock can be > acquired on KEY > tmux wait KEY # blocks until a signal is received on KEY > tmux signal KEY # unblocks processes waiting on KEY > > I think those commands would open possibilities for a new level of > tmux scripting. > > I want to try to implement these features, but since I have never > contributed to tmux(not familiar with the code either) I have a few > questions: > > 1- If I did implement those, would them be accepted?(what are the > requirements for accepting patches?) > 2- Do the developers see any 'big obstables' in the way of implementing this? > 3- Is there some kind of documentation that can help me understand how > to implement new commands? > > Thanks > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. > Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics > Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: > http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_feb > _______________________________________________ > tmux-users mailing list > tmux-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tmux-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_feb _______________________________________________ tmux-users mailing list tmux-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tmux-users
