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To: David Nugent <davidn@labs.usn.blaze.net.au>
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Subject: Re: socketpair() 
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 09 May 1997 23:17:26 PDT."
             <199705100617.QAA00363@labs.usn.blaze.net.au> 
Date: Sat, 10 May 1997 13:44:57 PDT
From: "Marty Leisner" <leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com>
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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