Re: [PLUG] Linux FIFOs

[Eric Lucas <eric@lucii.org>]

In the case of ASCII files isn't that an EOF character?
When it receives that character, the reading program 
stops reading?

I thought (danger, danger!) that was what happened when you did a 
"close OUTPUT ;" in the perl script writing the signature
to the FIFO.

Eric

Quoting gabriel rosenkoetter <gr@eclipsed.net>:

> On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 02:38:01PM -0400, Jeff Weisberg wrote:
> > there is no way for the signature writing program to
> > indicate to the signature reading program "stop reading"
> > over a fifo.
> 
> Sure there is. Use a FIFO for what it's supposed to be: an IPC
> mechanism. Define a protocol that has a machine-legible "stop" in
> its alphabet. Speak that protocol.
> 
> -- 
> gabriel rosenkoetter
> gr@eclipsed.net
> 


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Eric Lucas
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