Re: fifo devices

2001-03-28 Thread David Wright
Quoting Sebastiaan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I am looking for a fifo device. I need a device where I can store some > data, and read it with another program, and deleter the existing data > (just a fifo stream device). > > Looking in the kernel documentation, I found rtl* devices, realtime linux > f

Re: fifo devices

2001-03-28 Thread Sebastiaan
On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Eric G. Miller wrote: > On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 09:05:45AM +0200, Sebastiaan wrote: > > Hi, > > > > yes, this is what I was looking for. Unfortunately, it does not work like > > I wanted it to. > > There has to be both a reader and a writer for the FIFO. You can't just >

Re: fifo devices

2001-03-28 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 09:05:45AM +0200, Sebastiaan wrote: > Hi, > > yes, this is what I was looking for. Unfortunately, it does not work like > I wanted it to. There has to be both a reader and a writer for the FIFO. You can't just park some data there indefinitely... That's what regular file

RE: fifo devices

2001-03-28 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, yes, this is what I was looking for. Unfortunately, it does not work like I wanted it to. Thanks! Sebastiaan On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, R. M. Alarcon wrote: > did you try mkfifo? > > -Original Message- > From: Sebastiaan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2001 2:16 PM

RE: fifo devices

2001-03-27 Thread R. M. Alarcon
did you try mkfifo? -Original Message- From: Sebastiaan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2001 2:16 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: fifo devices (please cc me, my listserver is down ;( ) Hi, I am looking for a fifo device. I need a device where I can stor