Re: writing to a file via a named pipe

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Re^2: writing to a file via a named pipe by Anonymous Monk on Jan 27, 2009 at 19:27 UTC
supposing i want to write to a pre-existing pipe, how do i do that. the perlopentut dosent seem to be clear on that. thanks	[reply]
Re^3: writing to a file via a named pipe by moritz (Cardinal) on Jan 27, 2009 at 19:53 UTC
If the pipe is a named pipe, you can just open it like any other file (except that seeking will not work, I guess).	[reply]
Re^4: writing to a file via a named pipe by Anonymous Monk on Jan 29, 2009 at 15:54 UTC
thanks guys, ill be testing this out tomorrow. i think it should work	[reply]
Re^4: writing to a file via a named pipe by Anonymous Monk on Jan 29, 2009 at 17:25 UTC
basically what I want to do is open(PIPE, ">> xxx.fifo") or create a new pipe with the same name and write an error through it. any idea how I could accomplish that?	[reply]
Re^5: writing to a file via a named pipe by Anonymous Monk on Jan 29, 2009 at 17:30 UTC
Re^6: writing to a file via a named pipe by ikegami (Patriarch) on Jan 29, 2009 at 17:38 UTC