[Twisted-Python] Opening a fifo

[Phil Mayers]

Paul Thomas wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've run into a small problem where my twisted application needs to open 
> a fifo to talk to another process. On Linux at least, the open blocks 
> until the other end of the fifo is opened and this is blocking my reactor.

Either of:

fd = os.open('thefifo', os.O_RDONLY | os.O_NONBLOCK)
fd = os.open('thefifo', os.O_RDWR)

...will return immediately,

Try "man fifo" for a description of the vagaries.


A listenFIFO would be handy in Twisted. It's tedious doing this manually.