Hi, dillo is really a neat, compact and precise instrument. I don't want to see it being clobbered in any way. I have one request for bloat though. What about implementing some signals dillo would react on. I.e. SIGHUP to make dillo reload the page. (I'd like to use dillo to render the output of some shells scripts interactivly. These scripts are derived from cgi-bins.) Perhaps you wouldn't consider this bloat at all. cu. : Christian
Easy enough. -- En reponse de "[Dillo-dev] Remote control reloading" de Christian W. Zuckschwerdt, le 23-Mar-2003 :
Hi,
dillo is really a neat, compact and precise instrument. I don't want to see it being clobbered in any way. I have one request for bloat though.
What about implementing some signals dillo would react on. I.e. SIGHUP to make dillo reload the page.
(I'd like to use dillo to render the output of some shells scripts interactivly. These scripts are derived from cgi-bins.)
Perhaps you wouldn't consider this bloat at all.
cu. : Christian
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On 2003-03-23 at 17:46 +0100, Christian W. Zuckschwerdt wrote:
What about implementing some signals dillo would react on. I.e. SIGHUP to make dillo reload the page.
First: I know that I haven't submitted any patches yet, so am not qualified to really say much (my patches are for old versions and all useless, thanks to the sterling work of others, coming up with better solutions -- the best way for it to be ;^) ). I'd still like to point out that whilst this seems like a good idea, using SIGHUP for this is IMnsHO a bad idea. The whole thing with daemons using SIGHUP as a trigger to re-read config is because daemons have no controlling terminal, so can't receive a system-generated SIGHUP. Dillo doesn't detach from a terminal, so can. Whether or not Dillo should actually exit on SIGHUP is another matter. There are two signals reserved for user purposes, SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2. Why not use those? -Phil
On 2003-03-23 at 17:46 +0100, Christian W. Zuckschwerdt wrote:
What about implementing some signals dillo would react on. I.e. SIGHUP to make dillo reload the page.
Additional code must be justified by satisfying a user need. I don't think very many people are going to send signals to Dillo to reload the page -- they'll just click the Reload button. -- Chris music is what numbers feel like San Francisco, CA
What about implementing some signals dillo would react on. I.e. SIGHUP to make dillo reload the page.
Additional code must be justified by satisfying a user need. I don't think very many people are going to send signals to Dillo to reload the page -- they'll just click the Reload button.
No code needs justification. Only the inclusion to release version does. One person thinks he needs this feature that is trivial to implement. Even if it never goes to the main trunk, let's give it a try: it might prove usefull to some people. Or not, who cares? Dillo is great for this because the code is simple enough to understand and experiment with. Good luck trying this kind of stunt with mozilla! The Sylpheed project experimented embedding dillo, and eventually dillo included the feature. Bottom line: I'll always favor experimental contribution that prove useless to sterile discussion about the value of an hypothetical feature. Eric.
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