[Debburn-devel] read named pipes

Tom Deblauwe tickets at metalnight.be
Mon Apr 21 06:43:37 UTC 2008


Peter Samuelson wrote:
> [Tom Deblauwe]
>   
>> I first thought that I could make a directory with named pipes, and then 
>> write that directory to an iso image using genisoimage. But it just 
>> writes the named pipes literally to the disk, it doesn't ask data from 
>> those pipes.
>>     
>
> No, genisoimage doesn't support that sort of thing.  And I don't think
> it would be very easy to patch it to do so, since it wants to know
> things like the file size up front.
>   
>   

Ok,

In the meantime, I've found a program on the net called "flyisofs", 
which makes an iso from stdin, and puts that stream in multiple files on 
the iso itself.
So I've adapted it to my needs, and am fine now.

Thanks,
Tom,





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