Re: [ECOS] Pipes for eCos

[Gary Thomas <gthomas at redhat dot com>]

On Thu, 2001-12-06 at 15:46, Jonathan Larmour wrote:
> John Schwartz wrote:
> > 
> > We have recently decided to use eCos in our system.  Under our old system we
> > used pipes and accompaning functions (i.e. read(), write(), select(), etc.)
> > In looking through the documentation, I have not run across anything that is
> > similar. I currently have ver. 1.3.1.   Does this  eCos version or any other
> > support pipes?
> 
> Not pipes in the Unix sense, but then pipes are primarily for IPC, which
> doesn't make a lot of sense for a single process, multi-threaded system
> :-).
> 
> You could use POSIX message queues instead, and then still retain the
> ability to read, write and select on them.

Of course, you'll also need to update to the anonymous CVS version, 
since POSIX support is not in 1.3.1