On 2008 Aug 15, at 2:23, Richard A. O'Keefe wrote:
On 15 Aug 2008, at 12:17 pm, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote:
Actually, while I'm not sure how Linux does it, on the *BSDs pipes
are actually socketpairs.
This raises the question, which the documentation did not make clear
to me,
whether a "named pipe" is a pipe. One would hope it was, but
S_IFIFO and S_IFSOCK are different...
They have to be: bound AF_UNIX sockets and fifos have very different
semantics. That said, fifos could still be a different socket type,
just as pipes are a distinct socket type.
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brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH
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