quasi-[OT] Adobe Flash

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Sun, 2010-10-24 at 13:17 +0100, Marko Vojinovic wrote:
> We saw that the idea to use tail was feasible, the only remaining
> problem is 
> to give a signal to tail to die once the download is complete. This is
> a 
> problem because there seems to be no automatic way of finding out when
> the 
> download completes, short of closing the browser, since flash doesn't
> have its 
> own pid. At least I don't see a way.

Presumably the video arrives on its own TCP connection, which is closed
when the download is complete. There might be a way to use lsof to check
if it's still open. More research is required :-)

poc