Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 20:24:07 +0400 From: rihad <rihad@mail.ru> To: Danny Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: preventing FIFO from EOF Message-ID: <49429027.8060701@mail.ru> In-Reply-To: <E1LBAeU-00086X-I3@kabab.cs.huji.ac.il> References: <494235CA.2050101@mail.ru> <E1LB7zz-0006kU-SU@kabab.cs.huji.ac.il> <49426B64.1070004@mail.ru> <E1LBAeU-00086X-I3@kabab.cs.huji.ac.il>
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> BTW, buffer was written way back when memory was measured > in kilobytes and the ethernet was 10 mgb, so things have changed a bit, and > its effectivness is questionable :-) > My scenario: prog1 | prog2 where both are daemons. prog1 does all the work, and sends commands for prog2 to do when needed. I don't want prog1 to block while prog2 is busy executing the command. So a buffer is inserted between the two: prog1 | buffer | prog2 Asynchronous execution of commands. It's as simple as that.
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