Re: [TxMt] persisting and communicating with an external process over a period of time

On Oct 6, 2006, at 10:48 AM, sam aaron wrote:

Hi there,

What I want to do is to have the process persist over command triggers. i.e. One trigger might start the process, another might feed it information and do something with the response (this command may be called multiple times, and each time it would communicate with the same process, rather than create a new process), and a final trigger might end the process.

This is something I've been wanting to do also, to use in the R Console and elsewhere. Allan told me that something like this should be possible via a "named pipe" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Named_pipe), though I haven't had time to look closely into it.

Is this at all possible?

Thanks, Sam Aaron

Haris