Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 28 Mar 1996 13:32:27 +0100 (MET) | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: Named pipes - slightly broken in new kernels |
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On Thu, 28 Mar 1996, Ronald Wahl wrote:
> I do the following: syslog writes in a file and a tail -f reads from this > file and write the contents to the pipe. This works very well.
btw, is there a way on Linux to have a blocking read at the end of file? Pipes are not really files, they dont buffer. And "tail -f" polls the end of the file, which isnt very effective IMHO. Or should we use AF_UNIX sockets?
-- mingo
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