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From: Doug McIlroy <doug@cs.dartmouth.edu>
To: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] v3 pipes
Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2020 08:54:39 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <202004241254.03OCsd9m066621@tahoe.cs.Dartmouth.EDU> (raw)

>  why the single fd approach was abandoned? To its credit, it appears to allow for limited 2-way communication.

My understanding is that the single file descriptor broke the open-file
model, which had a single read/write pointer. Two-way communication via


Doug

             reply	other threads:[~2020-04-24 12:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-04-24 12:54 Doug McIlroy [this message]
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2020-04-25 11:14 Paul Ruizendaal
2020-04-25 17:54 ` Paul Winalski
2020-04-23 13:48 [TUHS] V3 pipes Paul Ruizendaal

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