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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