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Re: crufty mhn.default.sh stuff

2022-01-23 21:58:50
Maybe we need a new flag in mhn.defaults that says, "Delete the
temporary file after N seconds".  Implementing this should be
straightforward; just fork(), sleep(), and unlink().  N could be 10 or
30 seconds.

why not fork(), fork(), [exec() in child], wait(), unlink()?

i.e., wait for the viewer, whatever, to exit, then unlink(), exit().
(all while the main, parent process, goes back to its thing.)

See David's earlier email; the problem is some viewers (e.g.: xdg-open)
return immediately and launch the application in the background.  The
situation is even more complicated if you try using open(1) on MacOS X.

--Ken

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