6 Apr
2018
6 Apr
'18
5 p.m.
Norman Wilson <norman(a)oclsc.org> wrote:
We'd done it just by making pipe(2) create a stream. This caused some
subtle differences in semantics (pipes became full-duplex; writing to a
pipe put a delimiter in the stream, so that a corresponding read on the
other end would stop at the delimiter;
Was it 4.4BSD which implemented pipe() using socketpair() under the
covers? Full-duples like streams, but without the delimiters.
Tony.
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