From: Grant Taylor via TUHS <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
To: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] First appearance of named pipes
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2020 20:47:39 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4fb5b7ab-03a4-df64-d25b-8be587b6a17b@spamtrap.tnetconsulting.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <202003100729.02A7Tsg0002007@freefriends.org>
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On 3/10/20 1:29 AM, arnold@skeeve.com wrote:
> Absolutely:
>
> $ mkfifo the_fifo
> $ ls -l the_fifo
> prw-rw-r-- 1 arnold arnold 0 Mar 10 09:28 the_fifo
> $ echo foo > the_fifo & sleep 1 ; cat the_fifo
> [1] 3721
> foo
> [1]+ Done echo foo > the_fifo
>
> As you stated, not that you'd want to do that, but you can.
Thank you for your reply Arnold.
As I was reading your reply, I realized that I did not fully convey the
question that I was still mulling over in my head. (More in a moment.)
This thread is one of about three things happening in my life that have
to do with pipes, FIFOs, and file descriptors. I managed to articulate
the simpler of the questions while reading Noel's email.
The larger more onerous question is could I leverage exec to alter where
file descriptors 0 (STDIN), 1 (STDOUT), and 2 (STDERR) are set to,
including changing 1 to the value of a FIFO, and 0 of a subsequent
command to also be the value of the FIFO, thus have pipe like behavior
between two commands without using a pipe or redirection as in ">".
This has also gotten me to wonder about the possibility of having
multiple commands output to a file descriptor; 1 / 2 / other, that is
input to a separate command. Sort of the opposite of tee, in a manner
of speaking. I'll try to articulate:
$ mkfifo test.fifo
$ exec 3>&1
$ exec 1> test.fifo
$ for l in {a..z}; do echo $l; sleep 1; done &
$ for L in {A..Z}; do echo $L; sleep 1; done &
$ for n in {1..100}; do echo $n; sleep 1; done &
$ exec 1>&3
$ cat test.fifo
This seems special to me in that I have three processes (for loops)
writing into what is effectively the same pipe.
After having mulled this over for a few days and typing this out, I
realize that the "pipe" is really just a fifo and that in this case the
fifo is a named pipe on the file system. I could do the same thing with
a file. Historically I would have done the same thing with a file. But
now I realize that the file is not required and that I can use a fifo
which is in memory and never hits the disk. (Save for creating the name
interface to the pipe / fifo.)
At least, I think that's all accurate.
I would be very eager to learn from anyone who is willing to teach me
pointers. :-)
--
Grant. . . .
unix || die
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-03-11 2:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-03-06 22:44 Noel Chiappa
2020-03-07 12:17 ` Paul Ruizendaal
2020-03-07 13:29 ` Clem Cole
2020-03-07 16:39 ` Derek Fawcus
2020-03-08 2:36 ` Rob Pike
2020-03-08 2:47 ` Larry McVoy
2020-03-08 13:07 ` Ralph Corderoy
2020-03-08 13:25 ` arnold
2020-03-08 3:06 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-03-08 7:16 ` arnold
2020-03-08 15:13 ` [TUHS] sockets (was Re: First appearance of named pipes) Derek Fawcus
2020-03-09 23:22 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2020-03-09 23:44 ` Larry McVoy
2020-03-23 8:49 ` Peter Pentchev
2020-03-24 9:47 ` Derek Fawcus
2020-03-25 23:25 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2020-03-25 23:47 ` Richard Salz
2020-03-26 0:11 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2020-03-26 0:18 ` Richard Salz
2020-03-26 1:08 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2020-03-26 2:38 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-03-26 3:08 ` Rob Pike
2020-03-26 3:43 ` George Michaelson
2020-03-26 4:11 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2020-03-28 11:12 ` Peter Pentchev
2020-03-28 11:14 ` Peter Pentchev
2020-03-28 16:03 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2020-03-26 1:20 ` Tony Finch
2020-03-27 10:51 ` Derek Fawcus
2020-03-09 23:22 ` [TUHS] First appearance of named pipes Grant Taylor via TUHS
2020-03-10 7:29 ` arnold
2020-03-11 2:47 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS [this message]
2020-03-11 7:02 ` arnold
2020-03-10 13:49 ` Chet Ramey
2020-03-10 20:26 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-03-10 20:37 ` Chet Ramey
2020-03-11 2:51 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
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2020-03-08 21:42 Paul Ruizendaal
2020-03-08 22:04 ` Jon Steinhart
2020-03-06 20:41 Paul Ruizendaal
2020-03-06 21:06 ` Clem Cole
2020-03-06 21:10 ` Clem Cole
2020-03-07 5:08 ` Heinz Lycklama
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