Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2000 23:16:48 +0100 From: David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie> To: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: readers missing EOF on FIFOs. Message-ID: <200006052316.aa96832@salmon.maths.tcd.ie> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 05 Jun 2000 22:28:07 BST." <20000605222807.M42325@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk>
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> open, write, close, unlink, mkfifo Sounds like a strong conternder, though if something is unlucky enough to open the fifo between the close and the unlink it will just hang there. > Anyway, it's hardly an important application, the FIFO in question is > "~/.signature". Can you guess what it does yet? :-) Yes I know there's > probably something in the ports to do what I want, but I'm one of these > perverted people who actually likes programming simple things like this, > I might even learn something from it. I used to have a web page counter that used this method exactly, but we started using Apache and it doesn't like serving non-regular files ;-( No great loss. David. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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