Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 08:33:43 -0800 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: peter@netplex.com.au (Peter Wemm), kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: portability of shm, mmap, pipes and socket IPC Message-ID: <199902101633.IAA16644@implode.root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 10 Feb 1999 16:30:05 GMT." <199902101630.JAA08698@usr07.primenet.com>
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>> > > pipes - ? named pipes? >> > >> > FreeBSD pipes are bidirectional, since they are implemented with the >> > AF_UNIX socket code. >> >> Rubbish! They are quite seperate to an AF_UNIX socketpair() and have been >> for a *long* time (since 1996 when 2.2 was branched). > >Sorry again; I got confused. It's the IPC code that's implemented with >the sys_socket.c's struct fileops referenced by uipc_syscalls.c. Wrong file for pipes. See sys_pipe.c. -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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