Using spiped with a FIFO

[Peter Waller]

Hi All,

Not realising the difference between a unix socket and a fifo I tried
setting `spiped`'s `-t` parameter to a named pipe.

Unfortunately spipe just exits and spiped appears to do nothing in this
case. strace reveals that it tries to connect() to the fifo which isn't

connect(8, {sa_family=AF_FILE,

path="/home/pwaller/tmp/spiped/testfifo"}, 110) = -1 ECONNREFUSED
(Connection refused)

Any chance spiped could support writing to a fifo or is this fraught for
some reason?

Thanks,

- Peter

[Colin Percival]

Not realising the difference between a unix socket and a fifo I tried setting
`spiped`'s `-t` parameter to a named pipe.
Unfortunately spipe just exits and spiped appears to do nothing in this case.

connect(8, {sa_family=AF_FILE, path="/home/pwaller/tmp/spiped/testfifo"}, 110)

= -1 ECONNREFUSED (Connection refused)
Any chance spiped could support writing to a fifo or is this fraught for some
reason?

A fifo is one-way, and the spiped protocol requires two-way communication during
the initial handshake.

Why do you want to use a fifo anyway?