Re: bidirectional communication

[Ethan M. <merritt@u.washington.edu>]

On Wednesday 18 February 2004 01:52 am, Petr Mikulik wrote:
>
> Well, ad to the above problem with fifo in Octave -- why the following
> in bash does not work?
>
> bash$ mkfifo cau
> bash$ tail -f cau
>
> and in another xterm:
> gnuplot> set print "cau"
> gnuplot> print "hello"

I think that "tail -f" does not behave as expected for pipes.
Maybe it tries to use fstat() to see if the file has been extended?

Anyhow the same sequence works for me if I use "cat"
rather than "tail -f". 

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