From: "Paul" <pcas1986@bigpond.net.au>
Subject: Re: Named Pipes
Date: Thu, 06 May 2004 10:30:40 GMT
Date: 2004-05-06T10:30:40+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ktomc.23975$TT.19565@news-server.bigpond.net.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87ekpyk220.fsf@insalien.org
Thanks for that. I'm familiar with the OS/2 APIs for named pipes - I wrote
a partial thin binding to them years ago. My impression is that named pipes
were invented, or at least introduced, by Microsoft and therefore are common
to both OS/2 and Windows. As I said, I was looking for something a little
more portable. I'll try Florist.
Paul
"Ludovic Brenta" <ludovic.brenta@insalien.org> wrote in message
news:87ekpyk220.fsf@insalien.org...
> Mark Lorenzen writes:
> > Named pipes is a POSIX invention. You should therefore use the
> > ISO/IEC 14519 Ada interface to POSIX-like operating systems. The
> > GNAT implementation is called 'florist'.
>
> I don't know who invented them, but I am prety sure OS/2 and Windows
> both have named pipes and they do not use anything resembling a POSIX
> interface. For example, on OS/2:
>
> http://www.edm2.com/os2api/Dos/DosConnectNPipe.html
>
> I don't think there is a portable interface to named pipes, is there?
>
> --
> Ludovic Brenta.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-05-06 10:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-05-05 11:23 Named Pipes Paul
2004-05-05 22:07 ` Mark Lorenzen
2004-05-05 21:16 ` Ludovic Brenta
2004-05-06 10:30 ` Paul [this message]
2004-05-06 22:38 ` Mark Lorenzen
replies disabled
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox