mknod questions

[Ben Luey <lueyb@carleton.edu>]

I can make a "fifo" by running "mknod filename p" but how do imput code
into it? I can't do jed filename, nor even cat. The man documentation only
tells me that I made a FIFO. 

Thanks,

Ben


P.S. What is a FIFO?


> One way to do this is to have your .signature be a named pipe instead of
> a regular file..
> 
> 'mknod .signature p' <-- the 'p' is for Pipe..
> 
> To get a random signature, you have to run something like 
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> .
> .
> .
> while ( true ) do 
>   /usr/games/fortune > ~/.signature
> done
> .
> .
> .
> 
> The '...' areas are places where you could put in some code to handle
> the possibility of multiple processes (kill the other one, quit early if
> another is already running, etc..
> 
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