On 9/6/07, Lluís Batlle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I understand from [1] that named pipes are suposed to use the > filesystem as an "unlimited" buffer for the pipe. This would be an > advantage against a pipe deadlock I'm experiencing using unnamed pipes > (a CGI communicating wit Apache), but I cannot reproduce the > "unlimited buffer" in Linux.
On linux you want fifo(7), which says "When processes are exchanging data via the FIFO, the kernel passes all data internally without writing it to the file system.". Should answer the rest of your questions. -sqweek
