A Unix question (off-topic)

[Eli Barzilay <eli@CS.Cornell.EDU>]

Sorry for the irrelevant question, but it does have to do with Scheme.

I've written a cute program that starts some program that works by
reading something on its stdin and write something in response, and
makes a server out of it.  The result is pretty nice, certainly much
better than anything that I'd write in C.  [This is my excuse for
mailing here, maybe someone will find it useful...]

The problem is when the process is a shell script that pipes two
programs: the Scheme thing works fine, but the result doesn't work
since the pipe has a buffer so it is impossible to have immediate
responses (and the client needs them to know what was its reply).
So, does anyone know if it is possible to pipe two processes without a
buffer?

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