[Bro] Interprocess Communication from BroScript

[James Hook]

Thanks Seth, I think this is exactly what I need, so I'm going to install
2.2. Beta now!
James


On 2 October 2013 19:59, Seth Hall <seth at icir.org> wrote:

>
> On Oct 2, 2013, at 1:08 PM, James Hook <jamesfhook at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Has anybody else done anything similar?
> > Are there anyways to load modules, call c functions (or functions in
> scripting languages) from the bro language?
>
> Bro 2.2 beta has an exec module.
>
> ----script------
> redef exit_only_after_terminate = T;
>
> @load base/utils/exec
> event bro_init()
>         {
>         when ( local result = Exec::run([$cmd="date"]) )
>                 {
>                 print result;
>                 }
>         timeout 5secs
>                 {
>                 print "Hm, it didn't return.";
>                 }
>         }
> -----end script-----
>
> $ bro -b ./test-exec.bro
> [exit_code=0, signal_exit=F, stdout=[Wed Oct  2 14:59:02 EDT 2013],
> stderr=<uninitialized>, files=<uninitialized>]
>
>
>  .Seth
>
> --
> Seth Hall
> International Computer Science Institute
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>
>
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