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#!/usr/bin/perl -w
#hooks up two processes, 2nd of which has one line of output per line of input, expected by the first, which starts off the communication
# if you don't know how to fork/exec in a C program, this could be helpful under limited cirmustances (would be ok to liaise with sentserver)
use strict;
use IPC::Open2;
$,=' ';
my $quiet=$ENV{QUIET};
sub info {
print STDERR @_ unless $quiet;
}
my @c1;
do {
push @c1,shift
} while $c1[$#c1] ne '--';
pop @c1;
my @c2=@ARGV;
(scalar @c1 && scalar @c2) || die "usage: $0 cmd1 args -- cmd2 args; hooks up two processes, 2nd of which has one line of output per line of input, expected by the first, which starts off the communication. crosses stdin/stderr of cmd1 and cmd2 line by line (both must flush on newline and output. cmd1 initiates the conversation (sends the first line). QUIET env var suppresses debugging output.";
info("1 cmd:",@c1,"\n");
info("2 cmd:",@c2,"\n");
my ($R1,$W1,$R2,$W2);
my $c1p=open2($R1,$W1,@c1); # Open2 R W backward from Open3.
my $c2p=open2($R2,$W2,@c2);
select $W2;
$|=1;
while(<$R1>) {
info("1:",$_);
print $_;
$_=<$R2>;
last unless defined $_;
info("2:",$_);
print $W1 $_;
}
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