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

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