From: Gary Wright <gwtmp01@...>
Date: 2010-01-11T10:47:46+09:00
Subject: Re: Non-blocking communication between Ruby processes


On Jan 10, 2010, at 8:00 PM, Iņaki Baz Castillo wrote:
> 
> I got the mixed strings using a name pipe (created with "mkfifo" command) and 
> shared by two different Ruby programs (a writer and a reader).

A named pipe and a pipe should behave the same, the only difference being
that one has a name in the filesystem.