[LUG] point of named pipes?

[Adrian Midgley <akm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I've been looking at named pipes.

Is the sort of thing I might do with a named pipe on the network to have a 
program reading from it, and several programs intermittently opening it to 
write into, as a way of avoiding concurrent updates to a single log file?

Or is that much better done in other ways, in whcih case what is the point of 
them?


-- 
From one of the Linux desktops of Dr Adrian Midgley 
http://www.defoam.net/             

--
The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG
Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the
message body to unsubscribe.