On Nov 27, 2010, at 10:12 AM, Ben Haller wrote:
> 
> NSPipe uses NSFileHandle.  Does using an NSFileHandle directly change things 
> somehow?  If so, why?

NSPipe uses pipes, which act sort of like files, except for that buffering 
thing, enough so that they can be accessed through the same interface as files. 
But using NSFileHandle directly, you can use actual files, which in essence use 
the disk as the "buffer"...

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