Well, the fork() call is as well supported as dd and gzip :) (ie, not). If I read your example correctly, you seem to want to read a disk (in raw or character mode), gzip it and send it somewhere using something along the lines of netcat.

My first suggestion would be to write a few more lines of code and implement the whole thing in perl, which would allow you to run your task anywhere, without the overhead of multiple processes. Take a look at IO::Zlib and IO::Socket, which would do all the work for you.

Also note that in Win32, pipelines used to be very inefficient. The whole output of each member of the pipeline is executed up to completion and its output sent to a temporary file. Then the next member is fed with the temporary file and its output treated in a similar way, untill all the members have run. I would not be surprised if this were the case even today.

Regards.

In reply to Re: forking pipe open by fokat
in thread forking pipe open by Anonymous Monk

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