[TUHS] long lived programs

Tony Finch dot at dotat.at
Sat Apr 7 01:00:03 AEST 2018


Norman Wilson <norman at oclsc.org> wrote:
>
> We'd done it just by making pipe(2) create a stream.  This caused some
> subtle differences in semantics (pipes became full-duplex; writing to a
> pipe put a delimiter in the stream, so that a corresponding read on the
> other end would stop at the delimiter;

Was it 4.4BSD which implemented pipe() using socketpair() under the
covers? Full-duples like streams, but without the delimiters.

Tony.
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