SAMBA digest 1647

[Dejonghe, Koen]

Very very very cool. I have been thinking of this one myself. I 
thought I tested it and that I came to the conclusion that Samba did 
not recognize named pipes, and just treated them like normal files 
(overwriting them when you drag a text file onto them). But I must 
have made a mistake somewhere. It' perfect.
The way I will set it up is like this: a Progress program will sit on 
a named pipe and wait for input. As soon as something comes in, it 
will start reading and pump the data into the database. The bar-code 
readers can send the information onto the named pipe.
Thanks very much.


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From:  samba at samba.anu.edu.au[SMTP:samba at samba.anu.edu.au]
Sent:  Tuesday, April 07, 1998 12:29 PM
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Subject:  SAMBA digest 1647

Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1998 14:57:27 +1100 (EETDT)
From: Brett Worth <brett at select.com.au>
To: Multiple recipients of list <samba at samba.anu.edu.au>
Subject: Re: Triggering processes through Samba
Message-ID: 
<Pine.A41.3.96.980406144936.25582A-100000 at nermal.select.com.au>

On Mon, 6 Apr 1998 samba at samba.anu.edu.au wrote:
> From: "Dejonghe, Koen" <Koen.Dejonghe at be.origin-it.com>
> To: "'samba at samba.anu.edu.au'" <samba at samba.anu.edu.au>
> Subject: Triggering processes through Samba
>
> I was wondering if there isn't a more direct way of triggering a
> process through Samba, so that I can get rid of the daemon.
> Thanks for your help.

You could try creating a named pipe under Unix and having your
barcode reader write data to it.

e.g.
$ mknod pipe p
$ ls -l pipe
prw-r--r--   1 brett    sct            0 Apr  6 14:47 pipe
$ cat pipe

Meanwhile over on the PC...

D:\tmp>dir pipe
 Volume in drive D is brett
 Volume Serial Number is 0994-05F2

 Directory of D:\tmp

06/04/98  13:47                      0 pipe
               1 File(s)              0 bytes
                            122,486,784 bytes free
D:\tmp>echo hello > pipe

Then back at the Unix machine:

$ cat pipe
hello
$

Just like magic...

> Koen Dejonghe

Brett Worth