On Mon, Aug 05, 2002 at 02:55:45PM -0500, Adam Heath wrote: > On Mon, 5 Aug 2002, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > > > program1 | exoticprog --infile /dev/stdin --outfile /dev/stdout | program2 > > > > >Pip allow users to do that. > > > > So does /dev/stdin and /dev/stdout > > Unless the stupid app needs to mmap the file. Why would you use such an application in a pipeline anyway, other than sheer inability to comprehend of hitting the enter key more than once? The big thing about pipelines is that all the components can be processing at once, rather than waiting for one to finish before starting another. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | Dept. of Computing, `. `' | Imperial College, `- -><- | London, UK
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