From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 412 invoked by alias); 27 Apr 2007 13:59:20 -0000 Received: (qmail 403 invoked by uid 22791); 27 Apr 2007 13:59:20 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from londo.lunn.ch (HELO londo.lunn.ch) (80.238.139.98) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Fri, 27 Apr 2007 14:59:17 +0100 Received: from lunn by londo.lunn.ch with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1HhQye-0003pc-00; Fri, 27 Apr 2007 15:59:12 +0200 Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 13:59:00 -0000 To: Richard Pennington Cc: ecos-discuss@ecos.sourceware.org Message-ID: <20070427135912.GA28128@lunn.ch> Mail-Followup-To: Richard Pennington , ecos-discuss@ecos.sourceware.org References: <20070427094606.GB14364@lunn.ch> <4631DD2E.4030300@pennware.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4631DD2E.4030300@pennware.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) From: Andrew Lunn X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact ecos-discuss-help@ecos.sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: ecos-discuss-owner@ecos.sourceware.org Subject: Re: [ECOS] Pipes in eCos X-SW-Source: 2007-04/txt/msg00153.txt.bz2 On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 06:23:26AM -0500, Richard Pennington wrote: > Andrew Lunn wrote: > >On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 02:24:39PM +0530, Venkateswara Rao L. wrote: > >>Hi all, > >> > >> It seams eCos does not support pipes, is there anything > >>equivalent to that? > > > >Take a look at the thread: > > > >http://www.cygwin.com/ml/ecos-patches/2004-12/msg00034.html > > > >It was decided not to include it because it does not really follow the > >eCos way of doing things, but that should not stop you from using it > >is you want. > > > > Andrew > > > > Hi Andrew, > > Out of curiosity, how does that pipe/pty implementation fall short for > eCos? I've been thinking of using it to get a select()-able file > descriptor for inter-thread communication. > > Are there improvements that could be made to make it fit into eCos > better? I'd be willing to give it a try. Otherwise I'll just use my > version quietly. There was discussion at the time. What does the archive say? It is something like two years ago, so i don't remember myself. Andrew -- Before posting, please read the FAQ: http://ecos.sourceware.org/fom/ecos and search the list archive: http://ecos.sourceware.org/ml/ecos-discuss