On Sat, Aug 16, 2003 at 03:57:28PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sat, Aug 16, 2003 at 11:16:04PM +0200, David Fokkema wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 16, 2003 at 06:24:09AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > > I wanted to use a named pipe to provide random images. > > > Do you have a particular task in mind? If so, maybe someone knows of an > > alternative way without depending on named pipes. > > Well, yes a random image "file". I was thinking for using it for xdm at > first, but when I started thinking about it I ended up wondering more > about named pipes than the task I started out to solve. > > There's a lot of ways to do random images, I just though a named pipe > might be a simple way to do it. Which is is.
If you can use a socket, you can set up a server under inetd. In that case the program will be started automatically when someone connects to that port. It doesn't give you a file in the file system, though. -- René Seindal ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://sights.seindal.dk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
