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

[Simon A. Boggis]

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



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