Playing with threads

[Dave Angel]

On 01/07/2015 09:00 PM, Ganesh Pal wrote:
> Hi friends,
>
> I'm trying to use threads  to achieve the below work flow
>
> 1. Start a process , while its running grep for a string 1
> 2. Apply the string 1 to the command in step 1 and exit step 2
> 3. Monitor the stdout of step1 and print success if the is pattern  found
>

None of those three "statements" make sense to me.  Could you translate, 
or elaborate?  And fix typos?

What OS is this running on?

Is the process a program called grep.exe?  Or a second Python program? 
Who's doing the grep, that separate program or your original one?

Define Apply.  What's it mean to apply a string to a command?

What's an "is pattern" ?  And who's looking for it?

What's the real goal?  Or is this just a paraphrasing of an arbitrary 
school assignment (which don't always make sense).

> Questions:
>
> 1. Can the above be achieved without threads ? I prefer keep ing code
> simple  .threads can become confusion when this workflow grows larger

Sure, nothing in that description implies threads, just a separate 
process.  No idea why that's simpler, though.



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DaveA