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2002 Mar 01
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PATCH - smbd/trans2.c to support writing to Unix named pipes(FIFO)
...ork within the constraints of it.
We have a Unix named pipe sitting in a Samba shared directory. We have a
small C program that runs as a Unix daemon, listening for input from the
pipe file and performing tasks based on what is written to the pipe file by
the Windows client. ( Unix system: mknod some_fifo p )
The windows clients just see a "file" in a share on the Unix box, open it,
write to it, close it, and magic, we have a very simple RPC style API that
works with almost every windows application (including VBScript in MS
Word!).
This has been working for years using Windows 9X client...