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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>David T. Lewis wrote:</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>> If you want a Squeak server to talk to your 'C process'
through OS</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>> pipes, you can do this with class PipeableOSProcess.
You need to load</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>> the packages OSProcess and CommandShell from SqueakMap
(PipeableOSProcess</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>> is in the CommandShell package). If your 'C process'
interacts with</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>> the world through stdin and stdout streams, this would
be a reasonable</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>> thing to do. This only works on Unix/Linux, but it
would be fine for</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>> your Linux server.</span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>David. I'm not sure this does what I want. I think it
only deals with unnamed OS pipes and not named pipes. However, I think I can
treat names pipes just like they were files except I need to do an fcntl or
equiv to ensure non-blocking reads. Have you, or anybody else done this before?</span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Bob</span></font></p>
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