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Date: Sat, 10 May 1997 16:17:26 +1000
From: David Nugent <davidn@labs.usn.blaze.net.au>
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What are the advantages (if any) of using socketpair(PF_LOCAL, ...
as compared with pipe()?

I remember some discussion a while ago about pipe() in FreeBSD
having been implemented (until recently?) using socketpair(),
so perhaps there's no difference. What about with regards to
portability and so forth?

Thanks for any response,
David

David Nugent - Unique Computing Pty Ltd - Melbourne, Australia
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