Am Donnerstag, 5. April 2007 21:20 schrieb Yu, James: > What I understand about this is that JabRef simply writes out the > citation entry to a file named "lyxpipe.in". The code segment is like:
This is no real file. It is a so called "named pipe" or FIFO, but since on UNIX "everything is a file" it can be used like a real file on those systems. > My question is: How LyX goes the receiving? Any code segment example? When LyX starts it opens the FIFO for reading and listens. When a command arrives it acts accordingly. The code for this is mainly in src/support/socktools.[Ch] and src/lyxsocket.[Ch] If you look at src/support/socktools.C you'll see that only stubs of the needed functions are implemented on windows. I understand that named pipes do exist on windows, but you need different functions to deal with them, and so far nobody was interested enough to implement this. You are most welcome to fill in the missing bits, as Abdel wrote it should not be too hard. Georg
