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lindex has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Pardon the *nix-centric and lack of code nature of this question... Does anyone know if its possible to create a "fifo directory" that would beable to handle request from say an opendir call? What I would like todo is have a perl script that waited for a read on a special file and when it got that read it would output data as though the file where a directory. For example if I wanted to provide dynamic information to a directory listing program such as "ls".


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