Subject: Naming the pipe

From: [email-masked]
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1993 10:39:02 -0400

I think the following patch to samterm/unix.c is a good idea.
It allows the environment variable $sampipe, if set, to specify
the name of the fifo.
*** unix.c.save	Tue Apr 13 10:31:46 1993
--- unix.c	Tue Apr 13 10:33:25 1993
***************
*** 70,84 ****
  	int	fd;
  	int	flags;
  
! 	user = getuser();
! 	disp = getenv("DISPLAY");
  
! 	if (disp) {
! 		exname = (char *)alloc(4 + 6 + strlen(user) + 1 + strlen(disp) + 1);
! 		sprint(exname, "/tmp/.sam.%s.%s", user, disp);
! 	} else { 
! 		exname = (char *)alloc(4 + 6 + strlen(user) + 1);
! 		sprint(exname, "/tmp/.sam.%s", user);
  	}
  
  	/* Make the named pipe.  Multiple sams with the same user/display share the same pipe */
--- 70,90 ----
  	int	fd;
  	int	flags;
  
! 	disp = getenv("sampipe");
! 	if (disp == 0) {
! 		user = getuser();
! 		disp = getenv("DISPLAY");
  
! 		if (disp) {
! 			exname = (char *)alloc(4 + 6 + strlen(user) + 1 + strlen(disp) + 1);
! 			sprint(exname, "/tmp/.sam.%s.%s", user, disp);
! 		} else { 
! 			exname = (char *)alloc(4 + 6 + strlen(user) + 1);
! 			sprint(exname, "/tmp/.sam.%s", user);
! 		}
! 	} else {
! 		exname = (char *)alloc(strlen(disp) + 1);
! 		strcpy(exname, disp);
  	}
  
  	/* Make the named pipe.  Multiple sams with the same user/display share the same pipe */