Re: Does Linux has File Stream mapping support...?

[James Courtier-Dutton <James@superbug.demon.co.uk>]

Arijit Das wrote:
> Is it possible to have File Stream Mapping in Linux? What I mean is
> this...
> 
> FILE * fp1 = fopen("/foo", "w");
> FILE * fp2 = fopen("/bar", "w");
> FILE * fp_common = <Stream_Mapping_Func>(fp1, fp2);
> 
> fprint(fp_common, "This should be written to both files ... /foo and
> /bar");
> 
> So, what I am looking for is anything written to "fp_common" should
> actually be written to the streams fp1 and fp2.
> 
> Does Linux support this any way? Is there any way to achieve this...? Is
> there anything like <Stream_Mapping_Func>(above) ...?
> 
> Do pardon me if you feel that it is a wrong Forum to ask this question
> but I tried everywhere else and thought that implementers would best
> know about it, if at all anything like that exists.
> 
> Thanks,
> Arijit
> -

Why not just output to a file, and then use "tail -f filename"