On 2017/08/10 17:35, ed mcmurray <emcmur...@aevee.com> wrote: > From within the MPD application, I would like to access a Linux Named Pipe > FIFO that has been created in a second application. The second application > would place a STOP command into the Name Pipe, when appropriate. I would > like to insert code in MPD to then monitor this Named Pipe for the STOP > command and act on the command as though it was sent from an mpd > client.
But ... why? You can already do that with sockets, which is the core idea of MPD. Why pipes? Pipes have serious disadvantages (such as being unidirectional), but you did not describe any advantages of using them instead of sockets. _______________________________________________ mpd-devel mailing list mpd-devel@musicpd.org http://mailman.blarg.de/listinfo/mpd-devel
