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From: "Ethan Gardener" <eekee57@fastmail.fm>
To: 9fans <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [OBORONA-SPAM] [9fans] Why is there no simple equivelent to plan9's pipes on linux?
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2021 11:03:53 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <a182fb1d-5b07-476e-8665-695c387ae61a@www.fastmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210628194139.GA10869@legohost>

On Mon, Jun 28, 2021, at 8:41 PM, lego12239@yandex.ru wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 16, 2021 at 12:02:54PM -0400, Claude Noël wrote:
> > Plan 9 pipes:
> > - can be opened by multiple proccesses
> > - preserve write boundries
> > - will cache a single write
> > - 2 way
> > - simple to use
> > 
> > There's not really anything on linux that really compares to this.
> 
> May be. But what about unix domain sockets?

If you're thinking of purity here, "unix domain sockets" came from BSD and are very much unlike the clean design we expect from the authors of Unix. They were formerly called "BSD sockets".

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      reply	other threads:[~2021-06-29 10:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-06-16 16:02 Claude Noël
2021-06-28 18:59 ` jklowden
2021-06-28 19:41 ` [OBORONA-SPAM] " lego12239
2021-06-29 10:03   ` Ethan Gardener [this message]

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