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Curiously enough. PalmOS's file streams supported this very feature: delete as i read. As you read bytes from the start of the file, they'd be deleted. You were

Curiously enough. PalmOS's file streams supported this very feature: delete as i read. As you read bytes from the start of the file, they'd be deleted. You were allowed to have a concurrent writer appending to the end.

userbinator 7y ago
As you read bytes from the start of the file, they'd be deleted. You were allowed to have a concurrent writer appending to the end. Also known as a named pipe.
- cjhanks 7y ago
  Kind of, a pipe has a limit of 16 pages which is usually 64kb.
- dmitrygr 7y ago
  But with no limit on buffer size. Pipes have a limit after which writer blocks. Also pipes aren't persistent across reboots. These are.