Names Pipes... or how to get two separate applications to interact

Posted by eantoranz on Jun 29, 2009 5:53 AM EDT
Technology FLOSS; By Edmundo Carmona
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That would allow my_ssh_handler to get the output of ssh (in other words, the router) to process it, but I also need to send commands to the ssh, somehow. That's when named pipes show up. Named pipes allow you to send/receive data from streams that are not the standard input/outputs we get with every process (standard input, standard output, standard error).

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