write to fifo/pipe from shell, with timeout
- by Tim
I have a pair of shell programs that talk over a named pipe. The reader creates the pipe when it starts, and removes it when it exits.
Sometimes, the writer will attempt to write to the pipe between the time that the reader stops reading and the time that it removes the pipe.
reader: while condition; do read data <$PIPE; do_stuff; done
writer:…
