Honen, Oren wrote:
As I said, this file is meant to be read by a commercial application. I
can not touch this application so I need my new file to look & feel as a
real ascii file. This file is supplied via a parameter and not as stdin
redirection.
The named-pipe/unix-domain-socket solutions will fit the criteria of
"filesystem path".
How much does the file have to feel like a regular file?
Have you strace(1)'ed the application to see what it does with the file?
--Amos
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