On Mar 17, 1:59 pm, Jeff Schwab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > A Unix fifo is only nominally a file. It's really just a convenient way > of referring to an in-memory object. > mkfifo f > some_prog > f & > cat f > > Is semantically equivalent to: > > some_prog | cat > > If you want to peruse the data in your editor, use a regular file, not a > fifo. Have the writer (producer, "child" in your example) open it in > append mode.
Okay. I get it. That's interesting. Wish Lutz explained that. Thanks. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
