named pipe is a pipe On Wed, 2007-03-14 at 18:41 +1100, Amos Shapira wrote: > On 07/03/07, Gilad Ben-Yossef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Constantine Shulyupin wrote: > > Suggest me please, what better to use for local IPC, socket > or pipe? > > What are pro and cons? > > When and what is preferable to use? > > The first difference is sockets are two directional and > support > > client/server model. What more? > > > Pipes are more efficient, but only applies to 1:1 > communication (father > to child and similar). > > > Use pipes if you have an 1:1 situatuin, Unix doman sockets > otherwise. > > What about named-pipes? Do they use the same mechanism as pipe(2) > objects or as unix-domain sockets? > > --Amos >
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