* Portable way for creating FIFOs
@ 2017-09-18 20:48 Petteri Hintsanen
2017-09-19 6:56 ` Alexis
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From: Petteri Hintsanen @ 2017-09-18 20:48 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs
Hello,
Is it possible to portably create named pipes in Emacs Lisp? "Portably"
means here "to create in a system that has named pipes". I could use
call-process or something like that with 'mkfifo', but that seems quite
POSIXy thing to do.
(Context: I'm trying to write an EMMS player for mpv, and there FIFO
would be the preferable way to do IPC. But mpv does not create a pipe,
it only opens one.)
Thanks,
Petteri
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* Re: Portable way for creating FIFOs
2017-09-18 20:48 Portable way for creating FIFOs Petteri Hintsanen
@ 2017-09-19 6:56 ` Alexis
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From: Alexis @ 2017-09-19 6:56 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Petteri Hintsanen; +Cc: help-gnu-emacs
Petteri Hintsanen <petterih@iki.fi> writes:
> Is it possible to portably create named pipes in Emacs Lisp?
> "Portably" means here "to create in a system that has named
> pipes". I
> could use call-process or something like that with 'mkfifo', but
> that
> seems quite POSIXy thing to do.
Since no-one else has offered any suggestions, i'm wondering if
the
`make-process` function with :connection-type `pipe` might do the
job?
i'm on Debian, not a Windows system, so haven't tried it on the
latter
....
Alexis.
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