From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,c0bf571933019d30 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public Path: controlnews3.google.com!news2.google.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed1.uni2.dk!news.get2net.dk.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Named Pipes References: <87ekpyk220.fsf@insalien.org> From: Mark Lorenzen Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:FJqrjLFpFtHWG+PMt3TasAIbpok= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 07 May 2004 00:38:04 +0200 NNTP-Posting-Host: 82.180.17.202 X-Complaints-To: abuse@colt-telecom.dk X-Trace: news.get2net.dk 1083879394 82.180.17.202 (Thu, 06 May 2004 23:36:34 CEST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 06 May 2004 23:36:34 CEST Organization: Colt Telecom Kunde Xref: controlnews3.google.com comp.lang.ada:335 Date: 2004-05-07T00:38:04+02:00 List-Id: "Paul" writes: > 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 Bill Gates didn't invent named pipes as they existed at the time he wore diapers (well, roughly). I can't remember if they originate from BSD or SYS V, but they are now a part of The Single UNIX Specification. If you want to work with UNIX named pipes, then you need the POSIX binding (i.e. florist). If you want to work with the Windows or OS/2 ones I think you have to write a your own binding. - Mark Lorenzen