On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 09:21:52AM -0700, Gregg Dameron wrote:
> Mikhael Goikhman wrote:
>
> > Nowadays M4 preprocessing is not needed to write an ideal configuration.
> > m4 is pretty limited, it may be useful for simple things, but for more
> > complex needs you should write shell/perl scripts that create an fvwm
> > configuration on the fly, and read their output using PipeRead.
>
> I have used FvwmM4 to conditionally show/hide items in my TaskBar's Start menu
> tree on the fly. I have often wondered if using PipeRead with a script is
> "better", but I wonder if the PipeRead approach results in a greater number of
> Unix processes being forked, and so might be visibly slower on a highly
> CPU-bound system (as ours are). Can anyone confirm or deny?
That entirely depends on how you write the command that is
executed with PipeRead. If you use only commands built in to a
shell or a perl script, it shouldn't be much slower.
Bye
Dominik ^_^ ^_^
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Dominik Vogt, dominik.vogt_at_gmx.de
Reply-To: dominik.vogt_at_gmx.de
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Received on Wed Mar 06 2002 - 12:24:38 GMT