forward the events to a helper process via pipe

To reduce number of forks we pass over the events to a helper program
via a pipe. when there are no events for a certain time the helper
program can exit to save memory. Once new events arrives the nldev
application will respawn the helper.

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index e28138f..a15252b 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ include config.mk
 SRC = ${NAME}.c
 OBJ = ${SRC:.c=.o} log.o
 
-all: options ${NAME}
+all: options ${NAME} nldev-handler
 
 options:
 	@echo ${NAME} build options:
@@ -24,6 +24,10 @@ ${NAME}: ${OBJ}
 	@echo CC -o $@
 	@${CC} -o $@ ${OBJ} ${LDFLAGS}
 
+# hack for now
+nldev-handler: nldev-handler.o log.o
+	${CC} -o $@ $^ ${LDFLAGS}
+
 clean:
 	@echo cleaning
 	@rm -f ${NAME} ${OBJ} ${NAME}-${VERSION}.tar.gz