IIRC it is a relatively recent features. You should reach out to the Erlang
team on erlangforum.com.
On Mon, Jan 2, 2023 at 17:37 Willian Frantz <willianlui...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Just realized that BEAM supports communication with external processes
> using Named Pipes through Ports.
>
> ```
> terminal> mkfifo name.pipe
> iex> pid = Port.open('name.pipe', [:eof])
> iex> Port.command(pid, "Sending data through a pipe to whoever is
> listening to...\n")
> ```
>
> I was testing and trying to understand whether this could be a reliable
> feature for IPC.
>
> But didn't found any docs about this, both Erlang and Elixir only states
> the tuples as first arguments with :spawn, :spawn_driver, :spawn_executable
> and :fd.
>
> Is there a reason for this to be unknown? maybe future plans for
> deprecation or something... If that's not the case I would like to work on
> some docs for it.
>
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