On 3/23/19 4:21 PM, Carlos Franke wrote: > Hi, > > other then using [shell], is there a way to read from a named pipe / > fifo in Linux? > > I tried [textfile] and [msgfile] from zexy. Both fail to read from a > pipe, [msgfile] with the error message: > > pd: getbytes() failed -- out of memory > msgfile_read: could not reserve -1 bytes to read into
the problem being, that pipes don't have a "size", and both textfile and msgfile attempt to read the entire file on startup. anyhow, zexy also has [freadln] and [fwriteln] which should work ok. gmads IOhannes
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