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- From: tesco@bumetb.bu.edu (Dances With Babes)
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- Subject: Named pipes
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- Date: 27 Jul 92 20:05:23 GMT
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- I have recently discovered named pipes but can't seem to get them to do
- what I want. Is it possible to use a background process to read from a
- named pipe while many other processes write to that named pipe.
- When i try to test this capability in the unix k shell the background
- process ends.
-
- ex.
- mknod testpipe p
- cat testpipe &
- ls > testpipe
- The "cat" process ends after the ls is sent to the screen.
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- I've been told by IBM tech support that this is the way it supposed to work.
- This is on an RS6000 running AIX ver 3.2.2.
-
- thanx
- -tesco
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