[Gllug] Convertng a disk (regular) file to a named pipe

[Adrian McMenamin]

On Wednesday 30 April 2003 22:21, Simon A. Boggis wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-04-30 at 22:07, Tethys wrote:
> > Adrian McMenamin writes:
> > >Any ideas how to do this?
> >
> > Huh? Convert a file to a named pipe? What do you mean? You could
> > delete the file, and replace it with a pipe of the same name. But
> > converting it?
>
> I suppose you could, if you so wished, make a small
> c/perl/python/whatever program to spit the contents of the file out of
> said named pipe when something reads from it (don't some folks do that
> to get a rotating .signature?), but I also wonder what the question to
> this solution is ...
>
> Simon
This is what I want to replicate:

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&threadm=0Jda9.11393%24zX3.18982%40news.indigo.ie&rnum=4&prev=/groups%3Fq%3Dmounting%2Bswap%2Bover%2Bnfs%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26selm%3D0Jda9.11393%2524zX3.18982%2540news.indigo.ie%26rnum%3D4


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