From: sqweek <sqweek@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Pipes on UNIX
Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2007 21:57:24 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <140e7ec30709060657r72fbb10fjf118a72452a30a16@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45219fb00709060604s2d6fc50ex270cfcf30c36067a@mail.gmail.com>
On 9/6/07, Lluís Batlle <viriketo@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I understand from [1] that named pipes are suposed to use the
> filesystem as an "unlimited" buffer for the pipe. This would be an
> advantage against a pipe deadlock I'm experiencing using unnamed pipes
> (a CGI communicating wit Apache), but I cannot reproduce the
> "unlimited buffer" in Linux.
On linux you want fifo(7), which says "When processes are exchanging
data via the FIFO, the kernel passes all data internally without
writing it to the file system.". Should answer the rest of your
questions.
-sqweek
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-06 13:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-06 13:04 Lluís Batlle
2007-09-06 13:57 ` sqweek [this message]
2007-09-06 14:02 ` Lluís Batlle
2007-09-06 14:12 ` sqweek
2007-09-06 14:42 ` Lluís Batlle
2007-09-06 14:47 ` Gorka Guardiola
2007-09-06 14:57 ` Lluís Batlle
2007-09-06 15:52 ` ron minnich
2007-09-06 16:06 ` Gorka Guardiola
2007-09-06 20:17 ` Lluís Batlle
2007-09-06 20:33 ` erik quanstrom
2007-09-06 20:40 ` Lluís Batlle
2007-09-06 21:51 ` Charles Forsyth
2007-09-06 14:04 ` Enrico Weigelt
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