> open, write, close, unlink, mkfifo
Sounds like a strong conternder, though if something is unlucky
enough to open the fifo between the close and the unlink it will
just hang there.
> Anyway, it's hardly an important application, the FIFO in question is
> "~/.signature". Can you guess what it does yet? :-) Yes I know there's
> probably something in the ports to do what I want, but I'm one of these
> perverted people who actually likes programming simple things like this,
> I might even learn something from it.
I used to have a web page counter that used this method exactly,
but we started using Apache and it doesn't like serving non-regular
files ;-( No great loss.
David.
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