From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 21 05:54:47 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id FAA27221 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 21 Jul 1995 05:54:47 -0700 Received: from fslg8.fsl.noaa.gov (fslg8.fsl.noaa.gov [137.75.131.171]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with SMTP id FAA27215 for ; Fri, 21 Jul 1995 05:54:44 -0700 Received: by fslg8.fsl.noaa.gov (5.57/Ultrix3.0-C) id AA00619; Fri, 21 Jul 95 06:54:33 -0600 Received: by emu.fsl.noaa.gov (1.38.193.4/SMI-4.1 (1.38.193.4)) id AA14083; Fri, 21 Jul 1995 06:57:56 -0600 Date: Fri, 21 Jul 1995 06:57:56 -0600 From: kelly@fsl.noaa.gov (Sean Kelly) Message-Id: <9507211257.AA14083@emu.fsl.noaa.gov> To: Marino.Ladavac@aut.alcatel.at Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <9507211146.AA16364@atuhc16.aut.alcatel.at> (Marino.Ladavac@aut.alcatel.at) Subject: Re: named pipes Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk >>>>> "Marino" == Marino Ladavac writes: Marino> What is the proper BSD way in dealing with named pipes? mkfifo 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