Dear All,

It seems like such a simple problem, yet I can't crack it: Has anyone managed to get OpenRead to read from a simple Unix fifo pipe?

I do:

Run["mkfifo /tmp/test.fifo"]

which creates a pipe for me just fine. When I attempt to open it with

OpenRead["/tmp/test.fifo"]

Mathematica returns with:

OpenRead::noopen: "Cannot open "/tmp/test.fifo"

It does not matter if something writes to the pipe when the OpenRead is executed.

It seems I can do something ugly as OpenRead["!cat /tmp/test.fifo"], but that misses the point, and as a bonus, it blocks the pipe and I can't write to the pipe.

Any ideas?

Thank you!

Pawel

PS I'm running Mathematica 10 on OSX 10.9.5.