Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: I/O system brokenness with named pipes

On Wed April 16 2008 12:20:37 pm Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote:

On Apr 16, 2008, at 11:16 , John Goerzen wrote:

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On 2008-04-15, Joe Buehler wrote:

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John Goerzen wrote:

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So I have a need to write data to a POSIX named pipe (aka FIFO). Long story involving a command that doesn't have an option to read data from stdin, but can from a named pipe.

How about /dev/stdin?

Only works on Linux.

Hm. I see it even on our ancient Solaris 8 boxes. And I'm quite sure the *BSDs support it as well. Just how ancient / weird is this "POSIX" platform of yours?

OK, so I shouldn't have said "it only works on Linux", but as far as I can tell, it isn't standard (defined by POSIX). I don't presently have easy access to non-Linux machines, but I do want to be as portable as possible. -- John