Hallvard B Furuseth wrote: > It's wrong to call it a "daemon" since it is not > listening to a port or anything, but I don't know what else to call it. GnuPG, or to some degree dpkg, have options --status-fd and --command-fd which work the way you described except the file descriptors can be specified rather than assuming stdin and stdout. I would suggest doing it the same way. -- Roland Bauerschmidt