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From: eran@adelbert12.stanford.edu (eran yehudai)
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Subject: Named pipes and Next
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Date: 11 Sep 90 22:39:20 GMT
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I am writing a utility that uses named pipes (created by 'mknod p
name'). It works fine on suns, decs and even IBM aix. Only today I
found out the NeXT (I'm not sure about Mach in general) does not
support them, and I am looking for a simple alternative.

Is there a *simple* way of creating an effective pipe between two
independent processes? The Speaker Listener mechanism sounds about
right, but I'd rather not go into objective C.
Any ideas?

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Eran Yehudai
eran@thsun1.slac.stanford.edu