Hey, List;
Is there a "proper" way to open a named pipe with apr?
- There is a routine to create a named pipe (~mknod)
- There is a routine to open an unnamed pipeline (~socketpair)
- There is a routine to import a file descriptor which understands pipes
.. but there doesn't appear to be a to way actually open a named pipe.
apr_file_open will open the pipe just fine, but always sets ->is_pipe to 0.
This causes apr_file_pipe_timeout_set/get to fail with EINVAL.
Currently, I'm opening the pipe I need with apr_file_open, hopping twenty bytes
into the apr_file_t *, casting it as an int * and setting it to one. This
yields correct behaviour, but is about the worst way to do things imaginable.
Should I be patching apr_file_open, or am I missing something? I can make
changes to the UNIX code to make this work properly, but I have no clue what to
do for the other platforms (not that *I* need them -- but I hate submitting
incomplete patches).
Oh -- I'm running 1.0.1.
Wes
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