Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 02:44:00 +1030 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Peter Pentchev <roam@orbitel.bg> Cc: fs@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, Duncan Barclay <dmlb@dmlb.org>, Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>, Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> Subject: Re: httpfs Message-ID: <XFMail.010318024400.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20010317180055.A486@ringworld.oblivion.bg>
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On 17-Mar-01 Peter Pentchev wrote: > Actually, I want socketpair(2). pipe(2) was what I used before, > and that's the reason I had a read-only file descriptor - the portalfs > architecture allows for only one fd to be returned, and pipe(2) > provides a one-way pipe. I dup2'd stdout and stderr of the executed > program to the child fd, and the parent could read its output, yet > not write to its stdin. pipe's are bidirectional in FreeBSD.. --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message
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