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Date: Wed, 19 Nov 1997 14:27:30 +0100
From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
To: hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: Need some input re: named pipes
References: <199711141434.JAA01323@dyson.iquest.net> <199711142357.QAA18184@usr06.primenet.com>
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In-Reply-To: <199711142357.QAA18184@usr06.primenet.com>; from Terry Lambert on Nov 14, 1997 23:57:07 +0000
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As Terry Lambert wrote:

> > 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?

Of course not.  X is using sockets, not pipes.

j@uriah 208% ls -l /tmp/.X11-unix/
total 0
srwxrwxrwx  1 root  wheel  0 Nov 14 00:02 X0=
srwxrwxrwx  1 root  wheel  0 Nov 14 00:04 X1=

These should be in /var/run, of course.

-- 
cheers, J"org

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