From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2010-01-08T02:50:05+09:00
Subject: Re: How to create a pipe file ("mkfifo pipe_file")

On 01/07/2010 06:19 PM, Iñaki Baz Castillo wrote:
> El Jueves, 7 de Enero de 2010, Iñaki Baz Castillo escribió:
>> Hi, I don't find the appropriate command to create a "pipe" file in Ruby.
>> Which is the command to behave as system "mkfifo pipe_file"?
> 
> By the way, is it better to use a pipe_file or a UNIX socket? both are IO 
> objects but, is there any advantage in using some of them?

It depends on your usage model: if you need to know every individual 
client then you need to use a socket.  If you just can read message 
after message from wherever it came you can use a named pipe.  Also, 
IIRC a named pipe signals EOF once a writer has closed its end.  So both 
have a quite different usage model...

Kind regards

	robert

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