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Runpipe v1.0 beta
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lars Wirzenius)
Fri May 19 19:36:24 1995
Date: Fri, 19 May 1995 07:56:02 -0500
From: Lars Wirzenius <wirzeniu@rose.uthscsa.edu>
To: linux-activists@niksula.hut.fi, linux-announce@vger.rutgers.edu
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From: Christopher Neufeld <neufeld@physics.utoronto.ca>
Subject: Runpipe v1.0 beta
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce
Keywords: FIFO pipe plan
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Approved: linux-announce@news.ornl.gov (Lars Wirzenius)
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Title: Runpipe daemon and client
Version: 1.0 beta
Entered-date: May 11, 1995
Description: A package which monitors named pipes and runs a process on
the other end of the pipe when a read or write access is
made to the pipe.
Keywords: FIFO pipe plan
Author: neufeld@physics.utoronto.ca (Christopher Neufeld)
Maintained-by: neufeld@physics.utoronto.ca (Christopher Neufeld)
Primary-site: caliban.physics.utoronto.ca /pub
14 kB runpipe.tar.gz
Alternate-site: sunsite.unc.edu /pub/Linux/distributions/slackware/contrib
Original-site:
Platform:
Copying-policy: GPL
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The most common use of this is for logging and monitoring finger
requests, but it is useful whenever you want a file's contents to be
generated at the time that the file is read (or written) rather than at
some earlier time. As such, it can replace some simple cron tasks.
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Christopher Neufeld....Just a graduate student neufeld@physics.utoronto.ca
Home page: http://caliban.physics.utoronto.ca/neufeld/Intro.html
"Don't edit reality for the sake of simplicity"
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