Injecting Status-fd output

[Nicholas Cole]

On 3/8/07, Patrick Brunschwig <patrick at mozilla-enigmail.org> wrote:
[snip]
> In Enigmail I read it on a separate file descriptor, and check the
> results at the end of the process, before displaying the data to the
> user. This way, I can count the number of PLAINTEXT occurrences, and if
> needed I can split the output according to the PLAINTEXT_LENGTH fields
> (at least I hope that this is reliable information).

The problem being, though, that many situations do not produce a
PLAINTEXT_LENGTH field.  How do you cope with that?