Hi, Eric Blake wrote: > According to David Korn on 1/7/2010 1:46 PM:
>> The simplest change to the standard would be to require that recv() >> work on pipes as well as sockets. > > Is this something we should pursue further, to get to a point where pipe() > is not so bad to use? Does any Unix-like platform aside from Linux lack that feature? Is there any architectural consideration that would make MSG_PEEK difficult to implement for Linux's pipes? (For the former, I have no clue, while for the latter, I suspect not.) If not, I suppose we should take this to LKML. Thanks; this sounds like it would be a nice feature. Regards, Jonathan
