Date: Fri, 21 Jul 1995 06:57:56 -0600 From: kelly@fsl.noaa.gov (Sean Kelly) To: Marino.Ladavac@aut.alcatel.at Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: named pipes Message-ID: <9507211257.AA14083@emu.fsl.noaa.gov> In-Reply-To: <9507211146.AA16364@atuhc16.aut.alcatel.at> (Marino.Ladavac@aut.alcatel.at)
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>>>>> "Marino" == Marino Ladavac <Marino.Ladavac@aut.alcatel.at> writes:
Marino> What is the proper BSD way in dealing with named pipes?
mkfifo <filename>
Marino> I've apropos-ed the manual, but found nothing on pipe nor
Marino> named that would lead in useful direction.
Again, the faults of UNIX docs showing through: you need to have the
knowledge that named pipes are sometimes called FIFOs, and apropos'ing
for fifo does turn up the right info.
--
Sean Kelly
NOAA Forecast Systems Lab, Boulder Colorado USA
Maybe in order to understand mankind, we have to look at the word
itself: "Mankind." Basically, it's made up of two separate words -
"mank" and "ind". What do these words mean? It's a mystery, and
that's why so is mankind. -- Jack Handey
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