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From: flee@cs.psu.edu (Felix Lee)
Subject: Re: Names pipes or	UNIX domain sockets?
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> Can't you open with O_NDELAY or equivalent?

Now all we need is a shell syntax for opening with O_NDELAY set.
Otherwise it becomes tricky to do things like
	echo `date` begin >> log
if you don't know whether log is a named pipe or not.

And you also need shell access to O_SYNC, O_APPEND, O_EXCL, etc.

Perhaps rather than file redirection we need an "open" command:
	echo hello | open -WRONLY,NDELAY,SYNC,APPEND log
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Felix Lee	flee@cs.psu.edu