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changeset 762:ad503b495e3e
doc/Rvinterf-tools: document rvinterf -b PID addition
| author | Mychaela Falconia <falcon@freecalypso.org> |
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| date | Wed, 02 Dec 2020 20:17:23 +0000 |
| parents | 32031c18cc25 |
| children | 4eaad91f4d68 |
| files | doc/Rvinterf-tools |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/doc/Rvinterf-tools Wed Dec 02 19:49:23 2020 +0000 +++ b/doc/Rvinterf-tools Wed Dec 02 20:17:23 2020 +0000 @@ -66,7 +66,12 @@ The following options have the same meaning as in rvtdump, see the rvtdump section above for the details: -b, -B, -d and -l. The only difference is that --b without -l is potentially useful and thus allowed. +-b without -l is potentially useful and thus allowed. Additionally rvinterf -b +records the PID of the backgrounded process in /tmp/rvinterf.pid (inability to +write to this file produces a non-fatal warning); the intended use case is for +scripts that run rvinterf -b (perhaps as fc-xram secondary program with the FFS +editor application), perform some fc-fsio or other manipulations, and then kill +the backgrounded rvinterf process. Additional rvinterf options which don't exist in rvtdump are: @@ -91,7 +96,7 @@ This option is not meant for direct use by human users. It is passed by "client" programs when they invoke rvinterf behind the scenes with - an unnamed and unbound socket pair instead of conecting to an already- + an unnamed and unbound socket pair instead of connecting to an already- running rvinterf instance. -w number_in_seconds