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[Monotone-devel] Calling the shell from a hook
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William Uther |
Subject: |
[Monotone-devel] Calling the shell from a hook |
Date: |
Fri, 17 Nov 2006 22:01:23 +1100 |
Hi,
I'm just playing with monotone to see if I want to do some
projects with it. Is there a way to get the output of a another
process from within one of the lua hooks?
Background:
I use a Mac as my main machine, and it can store passwords in a
'keychain' for me - like the ssh-agent for those who are familiar
with that. You can then use the shell to grab them:
% more bin/getPassword
#! /bin/sh
security find-generic-password -ga $1 2>&1 > /dev/null | sed -r -e 's/
password:
\"(.*)\"/\1/'
(see http://macromates.com/blog/archives/2006/04/17/keychain-access-
from-shell/ for more info)
I've been trying to stick this into my monotone get_passphrase()
hook, but this is my first time with lua.
I was hoping something like this would work:
function get_passphrase(keypair_id)
pass = execute("/Users/willu/bin/getPassword", "monotoneKey")
print("finished executing")
print(pass)
return pass
end
but that just prints the password on stdout before returning 0... not
what I want. It seems that some other people have managed to get
data into monotone hooks using temporary files, but I'd really rather
not save a cleartext copy of the password to the filesystem if I can
help it (although I may have to - luckily I can use a unique password
here).
I thought I'd first ask if there was a simple, and secure, way to get
stdout from another process in Lua.
Any thoughts?
Will :-}
P.S. The other VCS I'm considering for this project is Mercurial.
What do people here think are Monotone's main advantages, and
disadvantages if you're willing to say, over Mercurial?
I've looked at Monotone before and it seems to have a healthy respect
for data, which is nice. Mercurial seems to be being chosen by a
number of high-profile projects at the moment though.
- [Monotone-devel] Calling the shell from a hook,
William Uther <=