26 Nov
2003
26 Nov
'03
23:52
The Wednesday 2003-11-26 at 14:48 +0100, Berge, Harry ten wrote:
If I create a named pipe / fifo with 'mkfifo' what will happen when I put stuff into the fifo but I don't get it out of it? I noticed data being send to the pipe is buffered, but what is the size of the buffer and what happens when this buffer is full?
Have a look at this book, included on the distro in pdf format - it is old, but might help: # Linux Programmers Guide The Programmers Guide by Sven Goldt and Sven van der Meer 6.3 Named Pipes (FIFOs - First In First Out) -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson