named pipe snippet

gistfile1.rb

        def run

                # create and intialize named pipe
                Util.create_pipe :to_daemon
                #pipe_dummy = File.open( Util::TO_DAEMON_PATH , "w")
                pipe = File.open( Util::TO_DAEMON_PATH , File::RDONLY | File::NONBLOCK)

                # main loop
                read_fds = []
                read_fds.push pipe
                p pipe.fileno

                while true do 
                        if IO.select(read_fds, [], [], 3) 
                                actions = Marshal::load pipe.gets
                                parse_actions actions
                        else 
                                puts "nothing happening.."
                        end
                end
         end