On Fri, 5 Feb 2010 18:27:49 -0500 (EST), Bob McGowan wrote: > If someone wanted to, they could write a single program that would read > input/write output from/to two or more descriptors, and use it to create > a multi-path'ed I/O processing sequence, but writing it to prevent > blocking on one input/output, so it could continue working on the other > pair, would be a bit hairy. > > The fifo node makes this sort of thing easy to do.
Well, as Mr. Spock would say, Fascinating! It appears that the combination of a shell pipeline and fifos makes the implementation of a multi-streamed pipeline possible. The problem is the lack of "stages", especially the stream splitting and stream joining ones. Thank you, Bob and Boyd, for your insights and expertise. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
