From fa5d54b3df74e7cb43c089091bedb36c51aa6e66 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Michael D. Lowis" <mike@mdlowis.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2019 22:52:57 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] updated telemetry script to add fifo and remove it

---
 bin/view-telem | 21 ++++++++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/bin/view-telem b/bin/view-telem
index 2b406a8..8e10c32 100755
--- a/bin/view-telem
+++ b/bin/view-telem
@@ -1,4 +1,19 @@
 #!/bin/sh
-while [[ 1 ]]; do
-    cat ~/tide-telem
-done
\ No newline at end of file
+
+FIFO="$HOME/tide-telem"
+
+quit(){
+    rm -f "$FIFO"
+    exit 0
+}
+
+# cleanup the fifo when the user says we're done
+trap quit INT
+
+# create the fifo if it doesnt exist
+[ ! -e "$FIFO" ] && mkfifo "$FIFO"
+
+# continually read contents from fifo
+while true; do
+    cat "$FIFO"
+done
-- 
2.52.0