Re: (Another) ontape to recover from a FIFO pipe

Posted in 2004

Clive Eisen — Wed, 13 Oct 2004 23:40:12 +0100 — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

Art S. Kagel wrote: > On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 16:49:24 -0400, Jacob Salomon wrote: > > You cannot recover from a pipe. Ontape opens the 'tape' file, reads the > reserved pages, performs some calculations, closes the 'tape' file, and > reopens expecting that the tape has rewound. > Art S. Kagel Presumably one could write a perl/summat prog to sit between the pipe and the flat file to close and re-open as necessary, by trapping the sigpipe -- Clive Eisen

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