[gnu.emacs.help] Portable way for creating FIFOs

[Petteri Hintsanen <petterih@iki.fi>]

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Looks like my original message below, posted to gnu.emacs.help, did not
go through into the mailing list...  Apologies for possible
double-posting.

Regards,
Petteri


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From: Petteri Hintsanen <petterih@iki.fi>
Subject: Portable way for creating FIFOs
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2017 23:48:57 +0300
Message-ID: <x2mlglb7mx2.fsf@iki.fi>

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