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- From: bmarlowe@ka.reg.uci.edu (Brett Marlowe)
- Subject: Non blocking open of FIFO: Can it be done in perl?
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- Summary: Is it possible to open a FIFO for writing and know there is no reader?
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- Keywords: O_NDELAY in open on a FIFO
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- Date: 18 Nov 92 00:28:15 GMT
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- I'm using FIFO as a rendezvouz point between two entirely different
- systems. My question is... is the there a way to specify O_NDELAY on
- an open call? Alternatively is there a way to make sure there is a
- reader on the other end of the FIFO?
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- Perl 4.019, SunOS 4.1.1, Sparc2.
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- Thanks,
- -Brett
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