From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 17619 invoked by alias); 27 Apr 2007 11:24:08 -0000 Received: (qmail 17610 invoked by uid 22791); 27 Apr 2007 11:24:07 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from adsl-66-72-240-147.pennware.com (HELO ms.pennington.ms) (66.72.240.147) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Fri, 27 Apr 2007 12:24:03 +0100 Received: from [66.72.240.147] (ms.pennington.ms [66.72.240.147]) by ms.pennington.ms (8.13.7/8.13.4) with ESMTP id l3RBNhmB031556; Fri, 27 Apr 2007 06:23:58 -0500 Message-ID: <4631DD2E.4030300@pennware.com> Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 11:24:00 -0000 From: Richard Pennington User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (X11/20060808) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Richard Pennington , ecos-discuss@ecos.sourceware.org References: <20070427094606.GB14364@lunn.ch> In-Reply-To: <20070427094606.GB14364@lunn.ch> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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/msg00150.txt.bz2 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. -Rich -- Before posting, please read the FAQ: http://ecos.sourceware.org/fom/ecos and search the list archive: http://ecos.sourceware.org/ml/ecos-discuss