Hi Siemen, You may want to check the pipe support code in OSSubprocess [1]. Note that the pipes should work outside of OSSubprocess. You can read the documentation as well as the unit tests for the pipes.
Cheers, [1] https://github.com/marianopeck/OSSubprocess On Sat, May 5, 2018 at 8:29 AM, Siemen Baader <siemenbaa...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I'd like to use an external tool to edit HTML code and then store and > version it in my Pharo image. I'd like to create a named pipe that the > external application will save to, and then have Pharo watch for whenever > the named pipe is written to and then execute code to handle the data from > there. > > But I can't find any place to register a callback on FileReference and > similar classes that will notify Pharo when the named pipe is changed, and > when the external editor will read from it. Is there any support for this? > > I know there are workarounds like polling or reading the file when it is > used, but I'd prefer to wire things together directly and avoid duplicating > the data if possible. > > thanks, > Siemen > -- Mariano http://marianopeck.wordpress.com
