[erlang-questions] Can a port use named pipes or other unnamed piped than the standard ones?

[Hynek Vychodil]

You can make simple shell or other wrappers over named pipes and use it as
other ports.

2008/8/8 Roessner, Silvester <silvester.roessner@REDACTED>

>  Hello,
>
> can I open a port so it communicates via a named pipe or an unnamed pipe
> other than StdIn and StdOut?
>
> The documentation says
>
> open_port(PortName, PortSettings) -> port()
>
> PortName = {spawn, Command} | {fd, In, Out}
>
> {fd, In, Out}
> Allows an Erlang process to access any currently opened file descriptors
> used by Erlang. The file descriptor In can be used for standard input, and
> the file descriptor Out for standard output. It is only used for various
> servers in the Erlang operating system (shell and user). Hence, its use is
> very limited.
> But I haven't found details on {fd, In, Out} and how I could open a new fd.
>
>
>
> Backgroud:
>
> We have a legacy Fortran program (called Marez) that opens many files and
> uses this files as a database. I want to use Erlang to replace this bunch
> of files by mnesia tables.
>
> My intention is to open Marez as a port, send the input that it needs via
> StdIn and get the answer back from StdOut.
>
> Since I also want to substitute all file accesses from Marez by
> mnesia accesses it would be cool if I could open more pipes than only StdIn,
> StdOut and StdErr. In this way I could replace in Marez all OPEN file by
> OPEN pipe.
>
> Otherwise I would have to multiplex all these accesses to StdIn and StdOut.
>
>
> mit freundlichen Grüßen / with kind regards
>
>
>
> Silvester Rößner
>
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