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Date:      Fri, 14 Nov 1997 21:18:31 -0500 (EST)
From:      "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net>
To:        tlambert@primenet.com (Terry Lambert)
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Need some input re: named pipes
Message-ID:  <199711150218.VAA01287@dyson.iquest.net>
In-Reply-To: <199711142357.QAA18184@usr06.primenet.com> from Terry Lambert at "Nov 14, 97 11:57:07 pm"

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Terry Lambert said:
> > 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...
> 
Well, that is one of the reasons that I wanted to look at doing the
change.  Of course, one of the major goals would be X compatibility.
If it means that some ioctls or somesuch had to be implemented, so
be it...


-- 
John
dyson@freebsd.org
jdyson@nc.com



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