how to smoke from a fifo pipe

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

really ... I know I can send syslog io to a mkfifo pipe but how should I write a daemon, in Perl, to process this output? Thank you

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Re: how to smoke from a fifo pipe by halfcountplus (Hermit) on Oct 02, 2010 at 13:24 UTC
You open and read from the fifo just like any other file. If you are writing to a fifo, you probably want to use autoflush: `use IO::Handle; open (FIFO, ">>fifo") \|\| die; FIFO->autoflush(1);` [download] This presumes a named pipe "fifo" already exists in the same directory.	[reply] [d/l]