On Dec 1, 2008, at 07:08, John P. Hartmann wrote:
All the multisteram pipelines I have seen on the various unixen have been of the fanout type. I have yet to see a reliable faninany. And I shall not hold my breath.
I've done it; granted it's tricky, and I relied on much collateral knowledge of which I/O operations are atomic.
It is also a myth that CMS Pipelines cannot exploit multitasking. One does it with several virtual machines in the true VM way. CMS/TSO Pipelines can do so and maintain record semantics to boot.
<RHETORIC> What's the name of the stage that does this? </RHETORIC>
The unix pipe and CMS/TSO Pipelines are fundamentally different. Anyone claiming otherwise has failed to understand one or the other, or both.
Agreed, even though I may not fully understand either. -- gil
