From: "Iñaki Baz Castillo" Date: 2010-01-08T22:22:47+09:00 Subject: Re: How to create a pipe file ("mkfifo pipe_file") El Viernes, 8 de Enero de 2010, Eleanor McHugh escribió: > On 7 Jan 2010, at 16:05, Iñaki Baz Castillo wrote: > > 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"? > > I see you've been asking a lot of questions over the Xmas break which seem > to amount to "how the heck do I tame Unix from Ruby". Whilst they're by no > means the full answer, take a look at the "Ruby Plumber's Guide" > presentations linked from my sig and google the couple of videos that > accompany them (there's one from GoRuCo, another from Rails Underground, > and possibly others too). > > There should be enough between them to give you an idea of how to use Unix > system calls from standard Ruby with syscall and Ruby/DL (or with a bit of > thought from Ruby/FFI). > > Also grab yourself a copy of Marc Rochkind's "Advanced Unix Programming" > and then spend a few days with the man pages for your favourite Unix > distro. Whilst the POSIX calls have the advantage of being fairly portable > you'll find most platforms have some cool calls of their own. Thanks a lot, I'm already reading such documentation :) -- Iñaki Baz Castillo