Questions tagged [named-pipe]
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determining the named pipe that PuTTY's pageant is using
I'm running PuTTY's pageant v0.78, which supports named pipes on Windows, per https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/wishlist/pageant-named-pipe.html.
My question is... how do I find out ...
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Default windows hidden files systems
During my learning of how named pipes works inside Windows, I've found this explanation :
Every pipe is placed in the root directory of the named pipe
filesystem (NPFS), mounted under the special ...
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ffmpeg waits to close the pipe in order to start processing data
I'm struggling with the following issue, on a Windows system:
I get a live stream from an SDK; I get chunks of bytes via a callback; the container is MPEG-PS
I have to display this live stream to the ...
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How do I open files for manipulation via command line, in Audacity, using Powershell?
Creating macros for Audacity is easy enough as they can be put together with the UI of the program itself.
However, opening files via command line (in order to apply macros on them) is less obvious.
I ...
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Use named pipes in ffmpeg
In my application I want to modify various mp3 and then mix them together. I know I could do it with a single command line in FFmpeg but it can end up very messy since I need to use various filter on ...
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systemd StandardOutput redirection does not work with a systemd socket
I have a systemd service like this (my-server.service):
[Unit]
Description=My Server
After=syslog.target network-online.target my-server.socket
[Service]
Type=simple
ExecStart=/usr/bin/java myserver....
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Can't delete, chown or chmod file even as root
I want to delete a backup of a website (FTP-mirrored with wget), but a single file, named js_composer.less resists. I can create new files and delete them in the same directory, so the problem might ...
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How save terminal output when feeding it with named pipe
We know that we can save the result of a program in Linux terminal with below syntax:
terminal.out > result.txt
or
terminal.out | tee result.txt
But I can't save the output of the program when ...
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Is fifo pipe size limited by disk cache allocated space?
On Linux CentOS 7 I am using named fifo pipes created with mkfifo to handle data passing between pairs of processes running on a multiprocessor disk server (Dell R730xd with 132GB RAM and 20TB RAID ...
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named pipes apparently not working/responding?
I am trying to use named pipes as a convenient way to preprocess input on the fly for pipelines that sadly do not accept data from stdin directly.
everywhere I look for info I get basically the same ...
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Shell pipes - the order of things
Because netcat on my box doesn't support -e,
The netcat man page gives me this workaround:
$ rm -f /tmp/f; mkfifo /tmp/f
$ cat /tmp/f | /bin/sh -i 2>&1 | nc -l 127.0.0.1 1234 > /tmp/f
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Create a symbolic link to a named pipe
Let's say some application exposes a named pipe with the name "Pipe1". If I want to express the named pipe as a file path that can be used for writing or reading, the path \\.\pipe\Pipe1 or \\?\pipe\...
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How to "tail" multiple pipe files or streams?
I need to monitor a lot of web servers for runtime errors and I have an idea of running a script like
#!/bin/bash -e
# Example set of hosts
HOSTS=(
host1
host2
)
for host in ${HOSTS[@]}
do
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Named Pipe connection between Host and Guest with Virtualbox
I have two apps which communicate over a named pipe (Unix domain socket) - all on one machine. I cannot figure out how to get the app in the VirtualBox VM (Linux) to open the named pipe on the host (...
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How to make vstest named pipes work properly in Windows 10
Like so many other people, I'm using Visual Studio to do software development. Now, one of the features that I like is the integration of VSTest into the software.
VSTest relies on named pipes to do ...
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