I forget whether I test the file mode. Or for that matter whether BFS supports named pipes. Give it a whirl.
CMS OpenExtensions do not support fork(), which should answer the last question. On 20 November 2012 17:45, Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> wrote: > On Nov 20, 2012, at 09:24, Rick Troth wrote: >> >> Is that not the USS companion to BFSEXECUTE? I have used that one for >> more than ten years (but not quite twenty, I admit). It handles >> filesystem operations, but does not run arbitrary OE programs ... >> unless you're saying that I missed a really cool feature. >> >> Enlighten me. >> > I may have been rash; shortsighted. Could one use BFS drivers > to connect to FIFOs connected to OpenCMS filters? That might > do what you want -- awk, grep, sed, regular expressions! And, > in place of XLATE, iconv! > > Would such filters run concurrently with Pipelines, in real time? > > -- gil
