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Re: Pipes for eCos
- From: Jonathan Larmour <jlarmour at redhat dot com>
- To: John Schwartz <jschwartz at sorensontech dot com>
- Cc: "'ecos-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com'" <ecos-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2001 22:46:28 +0000
- Subject: Re: [ECOS] Pipes for eCos
- References: <6E031E06378BD311AEF20090273CE1BADB84EF@el-postino.s-vision.com>
John Schwartz wrote:
>
> We have recently decided to use eCos in our system. Under our old system we
> used pipes and accompaning functions (i.e. read(), write(), select(), etc.)
> In looking through the documentation, I have not run across anything that is
> similar. I currently have ver. 1.3.1. Does this eCos version or any other
> support pipes?
Not pipes in the Unix sense, but then pipes are primarily for IPC, which
doesn't make a lot of sense for a single process, multi-threaded system
:-).
You could use POSIX message queues instead, and then still retain the
ability to read, write and select on them.
Jifl
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