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Re: General question on the status of named pipes
On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 12:55 PM, Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> wrote:
> Actually, named pipes have _never_ worked, at least according to the full
> set of POSIX rules. It's just that some releases had code that limped along
> better than in other releases for the particular use cases you happened to
> throw at them. cgf is working miracles to get it as far along as he has,
> but it's a very tough job to emulate POSIX fifos on top of windows.
Interesting. I used them successfully for a couple of years with 1.5,
IIRC. My mode of usage was usually something like:
$ mkfifo fifo1 fifo2
$ decode_audio_to_PCM audiofile | tee fifo1 > fifo2 &
$ encode_audio_to_format_1 -o newaudio1 fifo1
$ encode_audio_to_format_2 -o newaudio2 fifo2
This has two distinct advantages over tempfiles for me. I don't have
to wait for the decode to complete before I start to re-encode & I
don't need the disk space for large chunks of uncompressed audio.
NT
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