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From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
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Subject: Re: Need some input re: named pipes
To: toor@dyson.iquest.net (John S. Dyson)
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 1997 23:57:07 +0000 (GMT)
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In-Reply-To: <199711141434.JAA01323@dyson.iquest.net> from "John S. Dyson" at Nov 14, 97 09:33:59 am
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> Could anyone give me some feedback on an idea of making our pipe code (fast)
> used for named pipes?  I don't think that it is hard to implement, but
> do people usually use the socket ioctl's for named pipes?  Many of those
> would go-away when moving to the pipe code.


Wouldn't this break X?

Yes, I know I'm the one who's always trying to kill struct fileops...


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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