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Article #167Named pipes
From: Dances With Babes
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 20:05
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 20:05
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I have recently discovered named pipes but can't seem to get them to do what I want. Is it possible to use a background process to read from a named pipe while many other processes write to that named pipe. When i try to test this capability in the unix k shell the background process ends. ex. mknod testpipe p cat testpipe & ls > testpipe The "cat" process ends after the ls is sent to the screen. I've been told by IBM tech support that this is the way it supposed to work. This is on an RS6000 running AIX ver 3.2.2. thanx -tesco
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!olivea!bu.edu!bumetb.bu.edu!tesco From: tesco@bumetb.bu.edu (Dances With Babes) Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell,comp.unix.aix Subject: Named pipes Message-ID: <92033@bu.edu> Date: 27 Jul 92 20:05:23 GMT References: <19076@fritz.filenet.com> <14u80cINNbd8@grasp1.univ-lyon1.fr> <1992Jul26.165838.1278@news.eng.convex.com> Sender: news@bu.edu Reply-To: tesco@bumetb.bu.edu (Dances With Babes) Followup-To: comp.unix.programmer Organization: Boston University Lines: 18