[pca] hiding SOA data from "ps"

Dražen Kačar dave at fly.srk.fer.hr
Tue Dec 1 13:38:14 CET 2009


Martin Paul wrote:

> I've found an elegant workaround now - if $WGETRC or ~/.wgetrc exists,  
> pca copies it to a temporary wgetrc file (mode 600) and appends the  
> "header" options for the SOA data. Before running wget, $WGETRC is set  
> to point at this temporary file, which is immediately removed after wget  
> completes.

You might have a race condition here. It can be worked around safely, but
it's a pain. The simpler workaround is to set WGETRC to /dev/stdin and
then just write existing .wgetrc and the additional options to wget's
stdin. If that's simple enough in Perl.

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