Use of Named Pipes
 

Hello-
I'm using RedHat Linux 9. Have a question on the appropriate use of named pipes.

I have a number of small applications that come and go - they are related to servicing telephone calls on up to 120 lines. I want to create a logging mechanism so that each of these processes (up to 120 can exist at once) can write to a common logging mechanism.

I'm accomplishing this now by using a mySQL database, but I want to create an efficient mechanism that also passes a transaction list to a remote system (and I'd rather not use a DB function for this).

Here's my question: Can I have multiple processes writing to the same named pipe? My idea is to have a single program that reads the pipe and passes the transactions efficiently to the other system.

Thanks in advance,
Scott

How are you going to keep the processes from trying to all write to the pipe at the same time?

I guess that's the question: Do Linux named pipes support shared write access?

I'm thinking that maybe I should consider using sockets for this task!

If you do not already know about it, then maybe you should have a look at this package to see if it helps you in doing what you require.

http://freshmeat.net/projects/netpip...50%2C253%2C861