Date: Fri, 9 Jan 1998 18:33:18 -0800 (PST) From: Tom <tom@uniserve.com> To: Nathan Dorfman <nathan@rtfm.net> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Non-Posixly Correct pipe() and socketpair() Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980109183122.10883Z-100000@shell.uniserve.com> In-Reply-To: <19980109191945.48808@rtfm.net>
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On Fri, 9 Jan 1998, Nathan Dorfman wrote: > Here's a quick question that arose in #unix yesterday. Why does FreeBSD > have a bi-directional pipe() call when socketpair() does exactly this? > What benefits does making pipe() bi as well have? Doesn't this break POSIX > and introduce a new generation of Berkeleyisms? I don't think anything depends on this behaviour. John Dyson implemented new faster pipe code that is used for all types of pipes. Basically all pipes are the same (again this is only freebsd-current, I believe). I like the idea that all pipes are the same. > -- > ________________ _______________________________ > / Nathan Dorfman V PGP: finger nathan@rtfm.net / > / nathan@rtfm.net | http://www.rtfm.net / > > Tom
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