❦ 18 juillet 2014 18:01 +0100, Alex Bligh <a...@alex.org.uk> : >> On 18.7.2014 10:50, Stanislav Datskevich wrote: >>> So, this feature will not be implemented? I think BIRD will turn into >>> BGP swiss-knife if it will be. >> >> I think, this sounds interesting to me. And it shouldn't be very >> complicated to code it. I will look at it. > > Can I suggest you make the syntax such that a script is but one option? > I can see a good case for (e.g.) triggering a little lua to run, which > would not involve a fork() and be much faster. Clearly someone else would > have to code that bit, but generalising this might be useful. This way > you could get your lua to filter out 99% of things before running > (e.g.) a script. We have some experience integrating lua things and > whilst I can't guarantee it, we may be prepared to take a look.
Another way to avoid forking is to allow a long-running process to receive data, either through a socket or by spawning it and communicating with it on stdin/stdout. -- panic("aha1740.c"); /* Goodbye */ 2.2.16 /usr/src/linux/drivers/scsi/aha1740.c