Writing to FIFOs using Java

["Alistair Watson" <alistair_w@hotmail.com>]

Hi,
This is slighlty off-topic question but was hoping someone here might have 
some experience with my problem. I'm trying to write a user space program in 
java that can interact with my real-time module using the real-time FIFOs. I 
have a version of the user space program in C that works fine but i'd like 
to extend its capabilities and the easiest way is to use java. I have 
managed to simulate the C programs output in java and i can write this to an 
ordinary file. I can then 'cat' this file into /dev/rtf1' and the module 
responds. However I cannot get the java program to write to the character 
device (/dev/rtf1) directly. It throws an IOexception (invalid argument). I 
have tried using the different java output stream functions but to no avail.

I know this is not the best place to send java questions, i was just 
wondering whether anyone had any experience with this or not?

Thanks in advance

Alistair


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