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Doubts on FIFO

Hi ,
I m beginner for Unix and i want to use FIFO in my 2 Scripts . I want 1 script to read data from FIFO and other will write into FIFO.

Despite reading so many articles/posts i am still unable sunchronize my scripts.


My doubts are

1> Do We require both scripts as daemons to use FIFO ?
2> Below is my code ,pls modify it to make it work .


$ cat write
echo "name:" "Akshay" > /home/nbkpxj6/db.FIFO


$cat read
eventQueue=/home/user/db.FIFO

while : ; do


cat $eventQueue | while read name; do
echo $name
done

done

I m getting error " 0403-006 Execute permission denied."

I know above code can work for 2 separate terminals , but i want single terminal to run both scripts, write value and read value from FIFO.


Thanks in advance

Last edited by Akshay; 06-06-2008 at 09:04 AM..
 
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MKFIFO(3)						     Linux Programmer's Manual							 MKFIFO(3)

NAME
mkfifo - make a FIFO special file (a named pipe) SYNOPSIS
#include <sys/types.h> #include <sys/stat.h> int mkfifo(const char *pathname, mode_t mode); DESCRIPTION
mkfifo() makes a FIFO special file with name pathname. mode specifies the FIFO's permissions. It is modified by the process's umask in the usual way: the permissions of the created file are (mode & ~umask). A FIFO special file is similar to a pipe, except that it is created in a different way. Instead of being an anonymous communications chan- nel, a FIFO special file is entered into the file system by calling mkfifo(). Once you have created a FIFO special file in this way, any process can open it for reading or writing, in the same way as an ordinary file. However, it has to be open at both ends simultaneously before you can proceed to do any input or output operations on it. Opening a FIFO for reading normally blocks until some other process opens the same FIFO for writing, and vice versa. See fifo(7) for nonblocking handling of FIFO special files. RETURN VALUE
On success mkfifo() returns 0. In the case of an error, -1 is returned (in which case, errno is set appropriately). ERRORS
EACCES One of the directories in pathname did not allow search (execute) permission. EEXIST pathname already exists. This includes the case where pathname is a symbolic link, dangling or not. ENAMETOOLONG Either the total length of pathname is greater than PATH_MAX, or an individual filename component has a length greater than NAME_MAX. In the GNU system, there is no imposed limit on overall filename length, but some file systems may place limits on the length of a component. ENOENT A directory component in pathname does not exist or is a dangling symbolic link. ENOSPC The directory or file system has no room for the new file. ENOTDIR A component used as a directory in pathname is not, in fact, a directory. EROFS pathname refers to a read-only file system. CONFORMING TO
POSIX.1-2001. SEE ALSO
mkfifo(1), close(2), open(2), read(2), stat(2), umask(2), write(2), mkfifoat(3), fifo(7) COLOPHON
This page is part of release 3.44 of the Linux man-pages project. A description of the project, and information about reporting bugs, can be found at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/. GNU
2008-06-12 MKFIFO(3)