From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Dec 2 23:31: 3 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from whizkidtech.net (r20.bfm.org [216.127.220.116]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5624D37B400 for ; Sat, 2 Dec 2000 23:31:00 -0800 (PST) Received: (from adam@localhost) by whizkidtech.net (8.9.2/8.9.2) id BAA00252; Sun, 3 Dec 2000 01:29:42 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from adam) Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2000 01:28:41 -0600 From: "G. Adam Stanislav" To: Wes Peters Cc: Charlie & , hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: pipe Message-ID: <20001203012841.B228@whizkidtech.net> References: <20001202085127.A301@int80h.org> <3A292D98.E655D755@softweyr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <3A292D98.E655D755@softweyr.com>; from wes@softweyr.com on Sat, Dec 02, 2000 at 10:12:56AM -0700 Organization: Whiz Kid Technomagic X-URL: http://www.whizkidtech.net/ X-Castle: http://www.redprince.net/ X-Special-Effects: http://www.FilmSFX.com/ X-Operating-System: FreeBSD whizkidtech.net 3.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Dec 02, 2000 at 10:12:56AM -0700, Wes Peters wrote: >Yes, you can read from your own pipe, and yes the buffering availabe in >the pipe is limited. IIRC, the pipe size is 8K. Thank you. In that case I'll be better off using child processes for what I am working on. But I will use pipes from within a process whenever I know that my data will not grow larger than 8K. Adam -- A billion dollars in the bank, without the experience of carefreeness and charity, is a state of poverty. -- Deepak Chopra To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message