On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 09:05:45AM +0200, Sebastiaan wrote: > Hi, > > yes, this is what I was looking for. Unfortunately, it does not work like > I wanted it to.
There has to be both a reader and a writer for the FIFO. You can't just park some data there indefinitely... That's what regular files are for... > > Thanks! > Sebastiaan > > > On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, R. M. Alarcon wrote: > > > did you try mkfifo? > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Sebastiaan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2001 2:16 PM > > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > Subject: fifo devices > > > > > > (please cc me, my listserver is down ;( ) > > > > Hi, > > > > I am looking for a fifo device. I need a device where I can store some > > data, and read it with another program, and deleter the existing data > > (just a fifo stream device). > > > > Looking in the kernel documentation, I found rtl* devices, realtime linux > > fifo devices with major 150 and minor 0..., but after creating these > > devices, the kernel complains that there is no such device. And I can not > > find it in the kernel configuration. > > > > I did some search on the internet and ran onto RT Linux. It seems that the > > devices are made for this project. All I need are the fifo modules. > > > > Does anyone know anything about this, how I can get these devices > > working? Or other devices that can be used as a fifo? -- Eric G. Miller <egm2@jps.net>
