socat experts?

[blu at scrunch.net (Bob BLU)]

At 04:15 PM 1/13/2006, Josh ChaitinPollak wrote:
>I thought of that, or of using a while(1) loop in a shell script. The  
>problem with that is the restart time. I don't know how long it would  
>take, probably less than a second, but I'm concerned it might be more  
>time than we can afford. I'll try it out, its a temporary solution  
>anyway, until I can write my own application.

Perhaps you could stick a named pipe in the middle...