[Portland] xdg_vfs_gnome command line client

[nf2]

Kevin Krammer wrote:
> On Thursday 01 June 2006 15:13, nf2 wrote:
>   
>> Kevin Krammer wrote:
>>     
>>> I like the concept, though I think the shell mode or tagged mode are
>>> asking for difficulties when control data and payload data are mixed.
>>>       
>> Definitely. This also gives me headache. It would be nice if there where
>> a common standard for machine-readable output of cli tools. Kind of
>> simple out-of-process components. I'm currently using
>>     
>
> Hmm, one could use a pipe specified as a commandline option for either the 
> payload data or the control data.
>
> Lets say payload is always present, making it the candidate for stdin/stdout.
> --tagged could then get a manadatory pipe name parameter
>
> Similar change for shell mode
>   
Why do you want to separate payload and control data? You would still 
have to 'escape' payload data, because what if you want to transport 
multiple files? Also you might have to IO-multiplex on the client side 
if you have two pipes to read from.

Norbert