Reading from a named pipe / fifo (final version)

[Brian Akins]

On Jan 21, 2012, at 10:35 PM, Max wrote:

> 
> It will block, but not indefinitely, only for as long as I want it to block.
> That's why I used alarm to give open() 5 seconds to succeed
> 


5 seconds can be an eternity in internet time.

> 
> Exactly, there are strict MAC (Mandatory Access Control) restrictions
> in place.

You can use MAC with a fastcgi script.

> Even if there weren't, I'd still prefer the direct approach, it's
> much simpler and cleaner, IMHO.

I guess we'll just have to disagree about that. Doing things to make nginx block for seconds at a time on purpose seems much worse than managing a simple fastcgi script. IMNSHO.


--Brian