[Enigmail] Current IPC Options?

[Andrew Nerkin]

Fellow extension developers, 


I'm writing an extension that requires the ability to execute an external process and access the stdin/stdout streams of that created process.  The nsIProcess API allows me to launch an external process and specify command-line arguments, but it doesn't give me access to input/output streams for that process.  I see that Enigmail uses something called nsIPipeTransport to achieve the same functionality, but I'm confused about the state of this API.  It seems like it was at one point a part of Protozilla, then a separate library, then possibly going to be merged into the mozilla source base, and now... I don't know.  So if this is the only option for achieving the functionality that I desire, does anyone know where I should get this library, how I should bundle it with my extension, and where I can find a reference for the API that it provides? 


Thanks, 


- Clement 



      
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