Re: Sandro Tosi 2006-10-03 <[🔎] 20061002223548.CE3FD3C4E@matrixhasu.homelinux.org> > There exists alternatives to xmms-pipe, but pipes may be preferable > in some situations: > > * The pipe automatically inherits the security features of the > underlying filesystem (e.g. you could change its permissions so > that only users of a particular group can control XMMS). > > * In many programming languages, writing to a pipe is easier than > executing programs, making it easier to build programs to control > XMMS. > > * The plugin can call internal XMMS functions which means it can > have more functionality than programs relying on the > xmms_remote_* functions alone. For example, XMMSPipe can > load/save playlists. How does that make xmms-pipe preferable over xmms-infopipe, which also creates a pipe interface to xmms? Christoph -- cb@df7cb.de | http://www.df7cb.de/
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