
16 Apr
2008
16 Apr
'08
5:20 p.m.
On Apr 16, 2008, at 11:16 , John Goerzen wrote:
On 2008-04-15, Joe Buehler
wrote: John Goerzen wrote:
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? -- brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] allbery@kf8nh.com system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH