From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <45219fb00709060702t14169959ne9636b1b7e3d0f0c@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2007 16:02:57 +0200 From: "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Llu=EDs_Batlle?=" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Pipes on UNIX In-Reply-To: <140e7ec30709060657r72fbb10fjf118a72452a30a16@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <45219fb00709060604s2d6fc50ex270cfcf30c36067a@mail.gmail.com> <140e7ec30709060657r72fbb10fjf118a72452a30a16@mail.gmail.com> Topicbox-Message-UUID: b910a7f4-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 2007/9/6, sqweek : > 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. Oh, thank you. I expected that mkfifo(1) would point to that page if it existed, and in my installation it doesn't point.