[TUHS] First appearance of named pipes

Grant Taylor gtaylor at tnetconsulting.net
Wed Mar 11 12:51:08 AEST 2020


On 3/10/20 2:26 PM, Dave Horsfall wrote:
> Related question: are they the same as Unix-domain sockets?

Prior to this thread, I would have said that named pipes / FIFOs are 
unidirectional and that sockets are bi-directional.  But there have been 
a number of things in this thread that call that understanding into 
question.  Now I need to mull things over and get a new working 
understanding.



-- 
Grant. . . .
unix || die

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