How to use named pipes on linux network...?

mgnidhi_3july · 06-24-2010, 04:34 AM

hi linux gurus...
can anyone tel me how to create and use named pipe on linux network.ie
client - my linux machine
server - my fren's linux machine

how to communicate between these two using named pipe created in C? do u have any similar code snippet written in C??

i got one server client application,its working fine on my machine.So i want enhance that code for networking.so help in this...

ilikejam · 06-24-2010, 10:06 AM

Hi.

The short answer is: you can't. Named pipes on Unix are purely process to process IPC. No networking allowed.

Use a BSD (TCP/IP) socket instead.

Dave

i92guboj · 06-24-2010, 10:13 AM

Unless you do the networking stuff in another layer that can present your network shares are regular elements in your fs, for example like NFS or CIFS do.

ilikejam · 06-24-2010, 10:20 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by i92guboj

Unless you do the networking stuff in another layer that can present your network shares are regular elements in your fs, for example like NFS or CIFS do.

Have you ever tried that?

i92guboj · 06-24-2010, 10:21 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ilikejam

Have you ever tried that?

I wouldn't ever, my relationship with NFS has never been an easy one

ilikejam · 06-24-2010, 10:29 AM

Well, it won't work. It won't work on any other shared filesystem either.

schneidz · 06-24-2010, 02:56 PM

will netcat help ?