From: "Iñaki Baz Castillo" Date: 2010-01-08T02:57:00+09:00 Subject: Re: How to create a pipe file ("mkfifo pipe_file") El Jueves, 7 de Enero de 2010, Robert Klemme escribió: > 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. Yes, this is my case :) -- Iñaki Baz Castillo