On Wed, 20 Nov 2024 04:36:41 -0500
Rick Leir <[email protected]> wrote:

> My guess is that it has something to do with the max port number.

Nope.  The actual answer was in my original email.  They're using a pipe
as a counting semaphore.  I guess it was done this way for portability, before
SysV or POSIX semaphores were widely standardized.

Regards,

Dianne.

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