David Sugar - 2000-03-22

What is fifostream?

The intent is to derive a "fstream" class specifically for handling of named pipes (fifo).  It would automatically perform a "mknod" to create the fifo when the file is opened, and it would automatically perform a "remove" when the file is closed.  It would always open RDWR.

Since one might wish to create a "thread" to indipendently manage a fifo, there will also be a "FIFOSession" class as a combined fifostream/Thread object.