Named pipes problem

2005-12-13 Thread abottchow
Hi all, I'm new to the group and am seeking your advice on my Debian Linux C++ programming problem with named pipes. Two programs are involved. One is myProgram.cc, which reads user's input from keyboard and prints to the screen. The other program is main.cc, which wants to commun

Re: Named Pipes

2003-08-17 Thread René Seindal
mages. > > > Do you have a particular task in mind? If so, maybe someone knows of an > > alternative way without depending on named pipes. > > Well, yes a random image "file". I was thinking for using it for xdm at > first, but when I started thinking about it I

Re: Named Pipes

2003-08-16 Thread moseley
ternative way without depending on named pipes. Well, yes a random image "file". I was thinking for using it for xdm at first, but when I started thinking about it I ended up wondering more about named pipes than the task I started out to solve. There's a lot of ways to do rando

Re: Named Pipes

2003-08-16 Thread David Fokkema
task in mind? If so, maybe someone knows of an alternative way without depending on named pipes. David -- Happy Birthday, Debian! August 16, 1993 http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/print/4959/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Named Pipes

2003-08-16 Thread Pigeon
On Sat, Aug 16, 2003 at 06:24:09AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I wanted to use a named pipe to provide random images. I know I can use > a program in a loop writing to the pipe, but that means starting the > program initially (from say a init.d or xdm startup script) where it > sits block

Re: Named Pipes

2003-08-16 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, Aug 16, 2003 at 06:24:09AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I wanted to use a named pipe to provide random images. I know I can use > a program in a loop writing to the pipe, but that means starting the > program initially (from say a init.d or xdm startup script) where it > sits bl

Named Pipes

2003-08-16 Thread moseley
I wanted to use a named pipe to provide random images. I know I can use a program in a loop writing to the pipe, but that means starting the program initially (from say a init.d or xdm startup script) where it sits blocked until read from. Question: Is there a way in Linux to have the action