Re: /dev/fanout : A one-to-many multiplexer (beta)

On Tue, 06 Dec 2005 05:12:51 -0500, Måns Rullgård <mru@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Bob Smith <bsmith@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

Fanout is a module that replicates its input out to
all processes reading from it.  I use it to distribute
some log messages from syslogd.

That is better to do in userspace using sockets or pipes. 

With kind of architecture? How would one attach simple programs
like cat or awk to the socket or pipe stream? A pipe can only
have one useful reader. And stdio programs don't do sockets.
.

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