reading from named pipe

michael micha-1@REDACTED
Tue Feb 23 08:56:04 CET 2010


When trying to open a named pipe ( allocated with mkfifo under linux) I get the 
error:
{error,eisdir}

How do I open such a pipe?

The error message is somehow imprecise (or just wrong?): the file is not a 
directory.

cheers
 Michael


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