Named Pipes are an excellent idea when talking to strangers . And since it is mentioned in the Camel Book (page 345), you are certainly not the only one who uses this procedure.

But, I would include an retry mechanism because I think that when net-acct closes it's filehandle, the <> is terminated.

And there are better ways of setting up a daemon than with while (1) , for example Proc::Daemon.

Yours,
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Dr. Mark Ceulemans
Senior Consultant
IT Masters, Belgium