[plug] Named pipe. Solution to programming problem?

[James Devenish]

In message <tjtv62xq1e.ln2 at shameless.plug.org.au>
on Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 09:07:41AM +0800, Mike Holland wrote:
> James Devenish wrote:
> >  *However*, a named pipe is opened differently from a regular file, 
> Pardon? How?  Are you thinking of sockets?

Hehe, my fault. Yes, named pipes are not a solution to Tim's problem.
For some reason I substituted the name of a working solution with the
name that had been provided. Argh, the power of suggestion!

> > POSIX STREAMS ... allows a regular file to be backed by a programme. 
> isn't that what a named pipe does?

Not in a way that satisfies all the requirements I infer from Tim. But
maybe his requirements are simpler than I imagined.