From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jun 5 15:16:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from salmon.maths.tcd.ie (salmon.maths.tcd.ie [134.226.81.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 801DF37B791 for ; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 15:16:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie) Received: from walton.maths.tcd.ie by salmon.maths.tcd.ie with SMTP id ; 5 Jun 2000 23:16:48 +0100 (BST) To: Ben Smithurst Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: readers missing EOF on FIFOs. In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 05 Jun 2000 22:28:07 BST." <20000605222807.M42325@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> X-Request-Do: Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2000 23:16:48 +0100 From: David Malone Message-ID: <200006052316.aa96832@salmon.maths.tcd.ie> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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