On 1 February 2018 at 16:40, Paul Gilmartin <
[email protected]> wrote:


> > with a multi-stream pipeline topology ...
>
> That restriction is a myth.  C programs can deal with multi-stream
> pipe topologies.  In shell that requires named pipes.
>

Because CMS Pipelines does not buffer the data, the flow of records in
different segments of the pipeline is predictable. Without that, even
simple plumbing does not work as I would expect.
With named pipes you have a bunch of programs using each others output, and
you don't really care when they do it.

Rob

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