On Wed, 2010-10-20 at 00:17 +0100, Colin Guthrie wrote: > There are likely no ways to piggy back onto the existing protocol for > this kind of hacking sadly. The same mechanism is still used in latest > PA, but in git master there is a dbus based protocol which I'd wager > would be easier to extend. > > As it stands now, I do grant you that the modifications to the core are > highly undesirable. I may try and factor this out but it doesn't really > help you just now. > > I guess you'll have to use some kind of independent IPC to allow a given > app to talk to your module. Thanks, that's clear enough. An independent IPC looks quite a good solution. I've spent _many_ _hours_ poring over the source to find how this should be done so it's quite a relief to know it's not possible!!
