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From: lars@myab.se (Lars Pensj|)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: pipes under streams
Message-ID: <468@myab.se>
Date: 26 Jun 89 13:19:25 GMT
References: <256@unix.SRI.COM>
Reply-To: lars@myab.se (Lars Pensj|)
Organization: Myab Gothenburg, Sweden
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In article <256@unix.SRI.COM> unix.sri.com!orawest!brian writes:
>How hard would it be to write a streams driver for named pipes?
>How about regular pipes?  I want to sleep until data arrives from one
>of several processes - is this possible under V.3.2 Unix?

There is a stream pipe, "/dev/spx", which I think is standard under SYSV.
Open one pipe for every process you want to communicate with, and use
poll() to select. Note that "/dev/spx" is a clone device.

This should give you what you want.
-- 
    Lars Pensj|
    lars@myab.se