blind-to-named.1 (981B)
1 .TH BLIND-TO-NAMED 1 blind 2 .SH NAME 3 blind-to-named - Send a file descriptor 4 .SH SYNOPSIS 5 .B blind-to-named 6 [-a] 7 .I path 8 .SH DESCRIPTION 9 .B blind-to-named 10 create a 11 .BR unix (7) 12 socket with the filename 13 .I path 14 and sends the stdin file descriptor to the 15 first process that connects to it. 16 .SH OPTIONS 17 .TP 18 .B -a 19 Rather than binding to a filename, create and abstract 20 address, starting with a NUL byte followed by 21 .I path 22 and padded with NUL bytes until the end of the address. 23 .SH RATIONALE 24 The pipeline construction, in even advanced, shells 25 are not flexible enough to do all kinds of pipelinings 26 that are necessary when doing complicated effects with 27 .BR blind (7). 28 For example, this is necessary to pipe video into 29 two processes pipelines using 30 .BR tee (1) 31 and then using the end of both pipelines as the in 32 input to the process, like inverse multiplexing. 33 .SH SEE ALSO 34 .BR blind (7), 35 .BR blind-from-named (1), 36 .BR blind-tee (1) 37 .SH AUTHORS 38 Mattias Andrée 39 .RI < maandree@kth.se >