[ILUG] plumbing

[Wesley Darlington]

On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 03:17:27PM +0100, Stephen Shirley wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 03:09:21PM +0100, Ciaran Treanor wrote:
> > > >     mkfifo /tmp/something
> > > >     program1 < /tmp/something &
> > > >     program2 < /tmp/something &
> > > >     cat myfile > /tmp/something
> > 
> > When program1 consumes a character from the fifo isn't that
> > character no longer available for consumption by program2 ?
> 
> Yup.

Doh! :-)

Wesley.