I have a socket setup up by another program
which I want to read from and run a script every time a message arrives making
use of said message.
I have, up until now, done this using socat,
but I wonder if there is a way to solve this with skaware.
I don't have a program to do this, no, because it's rare that you
handle datagram sockets on the command line. It's pretty easy to do
in C, though (especially if you're using skalibs ;))
However, a design warning: if you're doing this, it's important to have
throttle/rate-limiting options. Because data can arrive on a socket
much,
much faster than you can spawn a script, and unless the sender is fully
trusted, it's a pretty good way to forkbomb and crash your machine.
--
Laurent
