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Re: Named pipes vs. MSG files
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Richard Gambrell <[log in to unmask]>
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Richard Gambrell <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 26 Nov 2001 07:56:51 -0500
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Gavin Scott wrote:
>
> Once again, pipes turn out to make rather lousy Message Files.
>
> G.
>

Yes.  This is an opportunity.  The way of Unix is to create
tools that provide better building blocks for all.  Someone
could implement much of the MPE Message concept on Unix by taking
a pair of named pipes with a program (deamon) in the middle
to handle the FIFO buffering of data to disk.  The same deamon
could be used to handle any number of "message pipes" and be very
general.

Richard
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