Re: [LUG] point of named pipes?

[Steve Marvell <steve@xxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jul 02, 2002 at 08:44:32PM +0000, Adrian Midgley wrote:

> I've been looking at named pipes.

For pleasure or profit?

> 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?

The way to avoid concurrent updates to a log file of to lock the file
before seeking to the end and writing. Other than that, have a process
that logs to the file and takes socket connections, like syslogd.

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

Last time I used named pipes was for a test of something. I've not
used them in a "real" application ever.

Steve

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