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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.


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