I want to use os.mkfifo for simple communication between programs. I have a problem with reading from the fifo in a loop. Consider this toy example, where I have a reader and a writer working with...

I have gone through a variaty of different linux named pipe client/server implementations but most of them use the blocking defaults on reads/writes. As I am already using poll() to check other fl...

How can you create a temporary FIFO (named pipe) in Python? This should work: import tempfile temp_file_name = mktemp() os.mkfifo(temp_file_name) open(temp_file_name, os.O_WRONLY) # ... some proc...

This is my simple code that opens a named pipe, writes a string to it, and then closes the pipe. The pipe is created in a another function, as mentioned below. char * ipcnm = "./jobqueue"; std::...

I am wondering if there is a Windows equivalent for Linux mkfifo. By equivalent, I mean way of creating files, with st_mode S_IFIFO. Thanks for answers.

What is the difference between mkfifo() and mknod() while creating a named pipe? I tried searching but couldn't get a satisfactory answer.

Is it possible to write to stdin of external process In Elixir? Is NIF the only option right now? The process that started from Elixir, blocks and wait for user input: pid = spawn(fn -> Syste...

I'd like to set up a blocking file read in Java. That is, have a file such that when wrapped by FileInputStream and any read() method is call, the call blocks. I can't think of an easy OS-independ...

I was trying to do something simple with a FIFO: read the lines, but not all at once, and it unexpectedly "did not work". This is OK: $ f=$(mktemp -u) $ mkfifo $f $ { seq 5 > $f; } & [1] 2...

Something very strange is happening when I open FIFOs (named pipes) in Python for writing. Consider what happens when I try to open a FIFO for writing in a interactive interpreter: >>> fi...

I am trying to use PhantomJS to render an html page to pdf. I do not want to write the files to disk, I have the html in memory, and I want the pdf in memory. Using the excellent answer from Poo...

I want to do what I wrote in the title. But I just simply can't get my head around it. I also googled everythng. I want to write strings to file of special type FIFO, created by mkfifo (I think). I...

I am trying to create a named pipe inside Ruby. Besides using the system command (system("mkfifo #{pipe_name}")), is there a native Ruby function allowing me to do this?

The mkfifo function takes 2 arguments, path and mode. But I don't know what is the format of the path that it uses. I am writing a small program to create a named pipe and as path in the mkfifo. Us...

I use mkfifo to create a named pipe. Then I use the following program to open it. However, the program hangs at the line "fopen". Is there something wrong here? int main(int argc, char** argv) { c...

Situation: new_pipe = os.open(pipe_path, os.O_RDONLY | os.O_NONBLOCK) # pipe_path points to a FIFO data = os.read(new_pipe, 1024) The read occasionally raises errno -11: Resource temporarily una...

I'm trying to write simple client and server C programs, communicating with each other in separate terminals. The server has to create a public fifo and wait for the client. Meanwhile the client i...

The above program i have typed in linux. It basically has to connect a client and server in separate terminals. But when i run them in the correct order, i.e Compile server -> run server Compil...

Why can't I use exec 3>myfifo in the same manner in a bash script as I can in my terminal? I'm using named pipes to turn an awk filter into a simple "server", that should be able to take text inp...

I was trying to understand FIFOs using Python under linux and I found a strange behavior i don't understand. The following is fifoserver.py import sys import time def readline(f): s = f.readlin...

I'd like to create a named pipe, like the one created by "mkfifo", but one caveat. I want the pipe to be bidirectional. That is, I want process A to write to the fifo, and process B to read from it...