Re: freebcp and Named Fifo

"James K. Lowden" <[email protected]> Fri, 16 Sep 2011 22:29:49 -0400

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On Fri, 16 Sep 2011 14:02:43 -0500
"Craig A. Berry" <[email protected]> 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