Can I hook a "file" to a python script?
Gary D. Duzan
gduzan at bbn.com
Mon Nov 10 12:36:55 EST 2003
In article <2kqv71-9u4.ln1 at valpo.de>, Mathias Waack <M.Waack at gmx.de> wrote:
>Scott Chapman wrote:
>
>> I understand named pipes to be "one-way" only. Is that correct?
>
>Not for Linux. Linux named pipes are bidirectional. I assume this
>holds for all unices but I'm not sure.
No, it doesn't hold everywhere. A more portable bi-directional
construct would be a UNIX/LOCAL domain socket bound to a file.
Gary Duzan
BBN Technologies
A Verizon Company
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