[gnu.emacs.help] Portable way for creating FIFOs

[Petteri Hintsanen]

Looks like my original message below, posted to gnu.emacs.help, did not
go through into the mailing list...  Apologies for possible
double-posting.

Regards,
Petteri

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> Mon, 18 Sep 2017 23:48:57 +0300
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> Hello,
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> Is it possible to portably create named pipes in Emacs Lisp?  "Portably"
> means here "to create in a system that has named pipes".  I could use
> call-process or something like that with 'mkfifo', but that seems quite
> POSIXy thing to do.
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> (Context: I'm trying to write an EMMS player for mpv, and there FIFO
> would be the preferable way to do IPC.  But mpv does not create a pipe,
> it only opens one.)
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> Thanks,
> Petteri
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