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  • From: "James K. Lowden" <jklowden AT freetds.org>
  • To: FreeTDS Development Group <freetds AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [freetds] freebcp and Named Fifo
  • Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2011 22:29:49 -0400

On Fri, 16 Sep 2011 14:02:43 -0500
"Craig A. Berry" <craigberry AT mac.com> wrote:

>
> On Apr 27, 2011, at 2:16 AM, Abhijeet Gaikwad wrote:
>
> > Does freebcp support named fifo's? Is it possible to load data into
> > SQL Server via a fifo?
>
> By fifo do you mean named pipe?

I think the OP refers to reading from a fifo instead of a file, cf.
mkfifo(1).

Answer is no, unfortunately. freebcp uses seek(2) and cannot read from
pipes.

--jkl




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