On Wed April 16 2008 12:20:37 pm Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote: > On Apr 16, 2008, at 11:16 , John Goerzen wrote: > > On 2008-04-15, Joe Buehler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> John Goerzen wrote: > >>> So I have a need to write data to a POSIX named pipe (aka FIFO). > >>> Long > >>> story involving a command that doesn't have an option to read data > >>> from stdin, but can from a named pipe. > >> > >> How about /dev/stdin? > > > > Only works on Linux. > > Hm. I see it even on our ancient Solaris 8 boxes. And I'm quite > sure the *BSDs support it as well. Just how ancient / weird is this > "POSIX" platform of yours?
OK, so I shouldn't have said "it only works on Linux", but as far as I can tell, it isn't standard (defined by POSIX). I don't presently have easy access to non-Linux machines, but I do want to be as portable as possible. -- John _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
