From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2012 06:40:45 -0700 Message-ID: From: ron minnich To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Subject: [9fans] I found this discussion pretty funny Topicbox-Message-UUID: be41bbd2-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 get to the part about why it's so great that pipe is a system call, not a device. This is the sort of back-and-forth that reminds me why I can't quite give up on plan 9 ... http://yarchive.net/comp/linux/everything_is_file.html "Do we create pipes by opening /dev/pipe? No. " and "Yes, some old-timers could argue that original UNIX didn't have sockets, and that the BSD interface is ugly and an abomination and that it _should_ have been a namespace thing, but that argument falls flat on its face when you realize that the "pipe()" system call _was_ in original UNIX, and has all the same issues." ah well. It seems that the guy who wrote pipe() might not agree that he does not know much about Unix ... but so it goes. ron