Robert Ransom: > On 8/24/12, Aaron Paden <aaronbpa...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Sorry about that. I would have searched the tracker, but I didn't see >> it. I was thinking for a second there that you didn't have one. >> Sometimes I fail at using the Internet. > > It took me several minutes of reading the list of tickets in that > ‘component’ to find that ticket. > >> So I'm not an expert in shell or anything. I know there are a lot of >> gotchas. It seems like it should be possible, though. Is there something >> wrong with using pgrep or something? > > Several things: > > * pgrep isn't POSIX, and it isn't in GNU coreutils (as of version > 8.13), so it probably won't exist on someone's Linux system.
That's a really esoteric thing. Any half recent Linux system will have it installed? If not, in long run there will (hopefully) be packages and TBB should depend on pgrep (if decided to use it). https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/5236 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/3994 If Mike wants to fulfill the esoteric requirement to POSIX and coreutils pre 8.13 compatible, the script could test if pgrep exists and leave them with the current behavior. > * pgrep only indicates that there is some process named “tor” (or > “vidalia”) running, not that the specific Tor or Vidalia shipped in > TBB is running. I fail to see the problem? Please elaborate. Tor Browser should also be compatible with system wide installed Tor/Vidalia. (i.e. apt-get install tor vidalia) > * There is currently no way for any program not started by TBB-Vidalia > to determine which ports TBB-Tor is listening on, and there is no way > for any such program to determine what control-port password Torbutton > will need in order to send TBB-Tor a ‘SIGNAL NEWNYM’ command (required > for the ‘New Identity’ command to work). (See also > https://bugs.torproject.org/6609 .) What's the suggested solution here? Why not write those data into a file or environment variable? _______________________________________________ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk