unix-named-pipe is a library to ease the creation and usage of named pipes on the Unix platform

extern crate unix_named_pipe; ... let filename = "/var/run/application.pipe"; let mode: u32 = 0o644 // Create a new named pipe unix_named_pipe::create(filename, mode)?; // Open a named pipe for reading let read_file = unix_named_pipe::open_read(filename)?; // Open a named pipe for writing (appending) let write_file = unix_named_pipe::open_write(filename)?;

Some examples are provided in the examples directory. There are examples for both fixed-size messages and for variable-sized messages To start the example client and server, launch the server first to begin reading and then launch the client:

cargo run --example fixsz_server -- /tmp/pipe cargo run --example fixsz_client -- /tmp/pipe

Pull requests are welcomed and encouraged. Feel free to ask questions via the issue tracker or email.

Any contributions will be greatly appreciated <3.

Licensed under MIT. See LICENSE for details.