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Re: Pipes for eCos
On Thu, 2001-12-06 at 15:46, Jonathan Larmour wrote:
> John Schwartz wrote:
> >
> > We have recently decided to use eCos in our system. Under our old system we
> > used pipes and accompaning functions (i.e. read(), write(), select(), etc.)
> > In looking through the documentation, I have not run across anything that is
> > similar. I currently have ver. 1.3.1. Does this eCos version or any other
> > support pipes?
>
> Not pipes in the Unix sense, but then pipes are primarily for IPC, which
> doesn't make a lot of sense for a single process, multi-threaded system
> :-).
>
> You could use POSIX message queues instead, and then still retain the
> ability to read, write and select on them.
Of course, you'll also need to update to the anonymous CVS version,
since POSIX support is not in 1.3.1