[Twisted-Python] suggestions needed on a process output event

[Itamar Shtull-Trauring]

On Wed, 13 Aug 2003 00:55:09 -0400
Yun Mao <maoy at cis.upenn.edu> wrote:

> 1. Can a reactor listen on several ports at the same time?

Yes. Just do reactor.listenTCP multiple times.

> 2. How to add some special event? For example, I have a process
> running: say "tail -f /var/log/messages". I wish, each time, when the
> process outputs a new line, my protocol could receive such an event
> (like dataReceived), and I can get that new line as my data. How to
> implement this?

reactor.spawnProcess, with a twisted.protocols.basic.LineReceiver hooked
up to the process. See http://twistedmatrix.com/documents/howto/process

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