Custom named pipes
David Lee
t.d.lee at durham.ac.uk
Thu Sep 19 14:02:00 GMT 2002
On Sun, 15 Sep 2002, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> David Lee wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, 13 Sep 2002 gerryjacobs at tiscali.be wrote:
> >
> > > [...]
> > > am I moving too fast and is there already somewhere in the samba code an
> > > api which can be called from an external program to create a (server)
> > > named pipe?
> >
> > This sounds related to an idea which we have discussed a couple of times
> > this year, but in a different context. Namely, an smbd could have an
> > associated named-pipe on UNIX, so that writes to that named-pipe would be
> > translated into WinPopup messages for the client PC .
>
> This is rather a different issue - while it's interesting to note the
> comparisons, I don't see there being much in common between these two
> issues.
Thanks, Andrew. I had merely seen a possible overlap, and was wishing to
ensure coordination of effort (and thereby reduce risk of duplication and
possible incompatibility).
Best wishes.
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