Date: Sat, 10 May 1997 13:44:57 PDT From: "Marty Leisner" <leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com> To: David Nugent <davidn@labs.usn.blaze.net.au> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: socketpair() Message-ID: <9705102044.AA01420@gnu.sdsp.mc.xerox.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 09 May 1997 23:17:26 PDT." <199705100617.QAA00363@labs.usn.blaze.net.au>
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In message <199705100617.QAA00363@labs.usn.blaze.net.au>, you write: >What are the advantages (if any) of using socketpair(PF_LOCAL, ... >as compared with pipe()? > >I remember some discussion a while ago about pipe() in FreeBSD >having been implemented (until recently?) using socketpair(), >so perhaps there's no difference. What about with regards to >portability and so forth? I think socketpair gives you bidirectional pipes... Is it in 1003.1g? (I don't have it yet). marty
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