At Sun, 30 Sep 2012 13:12:57 +0200, Richard Wossal wrote: > I recently tried to create unix named pipes (aka fifos) from within > Racket. I couldn't find anything in the docs about it so I did a > grep for 'mknod' and 'mkfifo' on the Racket sources and nothing turned > up. Am I missing something obvious here, or is creating fifos just not > (yet?) implemented?
There's no function for creating fifos, so far. I'd use `system*' and `mkfifo'. > On a somewhat related note, the docs for make-pipe[0] say that those > pipes are "not related to OS-level pipes (which are file-stream ports)". > However, the linked File Port docs don't say anything about pipes, > neither the anonymous nor the named version. It seems that the only > place where anonymous OS-level pipes are used in Racket is in > subprocess[1]. Maybe the note above make-pipe should link there instead? I agree that the cross-reference isn't helpful there. I'll move the note into the margin with more explanation that OS pipes can show up via the initial port or as a result of `subprocess'. ____________________ Racket Users list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/users
