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diff --git a/man/blind-to-named.1 b/man/blind-to-named.1 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5688a5d --- /dev/null +++ b/man/blind-to-named.1 @@ -0,0 +1,39 @@ +.TH BLIND-TO-NAMED 1 blind +.SH NAME +blind-to-named - Send a file descriptor +.SH SYNOPSIS +.B blind-to-named +[-a] +.I path +.SH DESCRIPTION +.B blind-to-named +create a +.BR unix (7) +socket with the filename +.I path +and sends the stdin file descriptor to the +first process that connects to it. +.SH OPTIONS +.TP +.B -a +Rather than binding to a filename, create and abstract +address, starting with a NUL byte followed by +.I path +and padded with NUL bytes until the end of the address. +.SH RATIONALE +The pipeline construction, in even advanced, shells +are not flexible enough to do all kinds of pipelinings +that are necessary when doing complicated effects with +.BR blind (7). +For example, this is necessary to pipe video into +two processes pipelines using +.BR tee (1) +and then using the end of both pipelines as the in +input to the process, like inverse multiplexing. +.SH SEE ALSO +.BR blind (7), +.BR blind-from-named (1), +.BR tee (1) +.SH AUTHORS +Mattias Andrée +.RI < maandree@kth.se > |