10 Mar
2020
10 Mar
'20
9:37 p.m.
On 3/10/20 4:26 PM, Dave Horsfall wrote:
On Tue, 10 Mar 2020, Chet Ramey wrote:
I believe that on Linux, at least, they have the same capacity limits
(64K), but you can modify that. I don't know about BSD.
Yes, absolutely. Just like a pipe is a FIFO, a
FIFO is just a pipe with a
name that appears in the file system.
So they would still be subject to the same 8-block limit? I haven't delved
into the finer points of named pipes as I rarely use them. Related question: are they the same as Unix-domain
sockets? Oddly enough I
haven't used those much either.
They're similar, I guess ("I am but a shadowy reflection of you."). But I
haven't used unix domain sockets, either.
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