Is it possible to send a struct through a named pipe?

It would be handy for what I'm working on but not horribly
necessary.

-Grant

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Grant Austin <gaustin@foo.foo.bar.net> writes:

> Is it possible to send a struct through a named pipe?

Yes.  Since a pipe is always local many of the possible errors (byte
order, padding) will vanish.  Sending structs over network sockets, or
storing them in files requires a bit more care.

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Måns Rullgård
mru@kth.se

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Grant Austin wrote:

> Is it possible to send a struct through a named pipe?
>
> It would be handy for what I'm working on but not horribly
> necessary.
>
> -Grant

You can send the data in it, but it might be dangerous.  I would expect
it would work, provided that nobody had used compiler options that
changed the way the data was packed in one module or the other.

Speaking only for myself,

Joe Durusau

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