From: "Berger, Daniel" <Daniel.Berger@...>
Date: 2008-03-13T04:10:57+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby does not support mkfifo

 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Yukihiro Matsumoto [mailto:matz@ruby-lang.org] 
> Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 12:21 PM
> To: ruby-core@ruby-lang.org
> Subject: Re: Ruby does not support mkfifo
> 
> Hi,
> 
> In message "Re: Ruby does not support mkfifo"
>     on Thu, 28 Feb 2008 02:23:55 +0900, Hongli Lai 
> <hongli@plan99.net> writes:
> 
> |Today I needed to call mkfifo() and found out that Ruby does not 
> |support it. There is an old patch (
> |http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/91735 ) 
> |that dates back to 2004, but it was never committed. Why is that?
> 
>  (1) mknod and mkfifo are not ubiquitous.
>  (2) for platforms that support these functions, it is easy to
>      accomplish same functionality by calling commands with same
>      names, e.g. system("mkfifo /path/to/fifo").
>  (3) they are not likely to used in inner loops, so there's no
>      performance reason to make them built-in.
> 
> Any opinion?

Agreed. Put them in a separate library.

Regards,

Dan


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