[OT] Jim's signatures (was: Re: [Gllug] Gllug Changing)

[Bruce Richardson]

On 17/05/02, 16:00:30, Kim Hawtin <kim at aldigital.co.uk> wrote regarding Re: 
[OT] Jim's signatures (was: Re: [Gllug] Gllug Changing):

> so how is this differen from ;

>  set    signature=~/.mutt/randsig.pl|

> except that it fires of a process only when its needed?

The way fifos work mean that the writing process sleeps until another 
process reads from the fifo and so unblocks the write.  So it's not 
freewheeling and using up cpu cycles. 

-- 

Bruce


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