From: Clem Cole <clemc@ccc.com>
To: Paul Ruizendaal <pnr@planet.nl>
Cc: TUHS main list <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>,
Bruce Borden <bruce.borden@gmail.com>, Dave Yost <Dave@yost.com>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] First appearance of named pipes
Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2020 08:29:05 -0500 [thread overview]
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On Sat, Mar 7, 2020 at 7:18 AM Paul Ruizendaal <pnr@planet.nl> wrote:
> Thanks for the feedback, all.
>
> Rand ports were done in 1977 by Sunshine/Zucker. I’ve only come across
> Rand Ports in the context of V6 and the Arpa crowd 1977-1981. I’ve never
> seen a reference to Rand Ports on V7 or later. This of course does not mean
> that it did not exist.
>
Steve Glaser hacked was playing with them at Tektronix in 1979, as he had
put them into their V6 system before I got there IIRC. I switched the
user code to use Chesson's MPX in V7, which is why I think they never were
used much in V7.
I've forgotten what Bruce used for UNET - I'm CC'ing him here, hoping to
jog his memory.,
>
> I’ve dug further, and it would seem that named pipes under the name ‘fifo’
> appeared first in SysIII (1980). That matches with Luderer’s remark. It
> does not seem to exist in the Research editions. It only appears in BSD in
> the Reno release, 1990. All in all, it would seem that ‘fifo’s were a SysV
> thing for most of the 80’s, with the BSD lineage using domain sockets
> instead (as Clem mentioned).
>
Yes, that's right. And if you were someone like Masscomp or Pyramid trying
to thread both systems, we had both in our kernels.
>
> Interestingly, Luderer also refers to a 1978 paper by Steve Holmgren (one
> of the Arpa Unix authors), suggesting ’sockets’ (in today’s parlance) for
> interproces communication.
>
> Paul
>
> PS really nobody on the list recalls Luderer's (et al.) distributed Unix
> and how it related to other work ??
>
>
> > On 6 Mar 2020, at 23:44, Noel Chiappa <jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> wrote:
> >
> >
> >> From: Paul Ruizendaal
> >
> >> The paper is from late 1981. ... When did FIFO's become a
> >> standard Unix feature?
> >
> > Err, V4? :-) At least, that's when pipes arrived (I think - we don't
> have V4
> > sources, but there are indications that's when they appeared), and a
> pipe is a
> > FIFO. RAND ports just allowed (effectively) a pipe to have a name in the
> file
> > system.
> >
> > The implementation of both is pretty straight-forward. A pipe is just a
> file
> > which has a maximum length, after which the writer is blocked. A port is
> > just a pipe (it uses the pipe code) whose inode appears in the file
> system.
> >
> >> From: Clem Cole
> >
> >> I think the code is on one of the 'USENIX' tapes in Warren's archives.
> >
> > Doc is here:
> >
> > https://minnie.tuhs.org//cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=BBN-V6/doc/ipc
> >
> > and sources for all that are here:
> >
> > https://minnie.tuhs.org//cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=BBN-V6/dmr
> > https://minnie.tuhs.org//cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=BBN-V6/ken
> >
> > (port.c is in 'dmr', not 'ken'where it should be).
> >
> > Noel
>
>
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Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-03-06 22:44 Noel Chiappa
2020-03-07 12:17 ` Paul Ruizendaal
2020-03-07 13:29 ` Clem Cole [this message]
2020-03-07 16:39 ` Derek Fawcus
2020-03-08 2:36 ` Rob Pike
2020-03-08 2:47 ` Larry McVoy
2020-03-08 13:07 ` Ralph Corderoy
2020-03-08 13:25 ` arnold
2020-03-08 3:06 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-03-08 7:16 ` arnold
2020-03-08 15:13 ` [TUHS] sockets (was Re: First appearance of named pipes) Derek Fawcus
2020-03-09 23:22 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2020-03-09 23:44 ` Larry McVoy
2020-03-23 8:49 ` Peter Pentchev
2020-03-24 9:47 ` Derek Fawcus
2020-03-25 23:25 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2020-03-25 23:47 ` Richard Salz
2020-03-26 0:11 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2020-03-26 0:18 ` Richard Salz
2020-03-26 1:08 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2020-03-26 2:38 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-03-26 3:08 ` Rob Pike
2020-03-26 3:43 ` George Michaelson
2020-03-26 4:11 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2020-03-28 11:12 ` Peter Pentchev
2020-03-28 11:14 ` Peter Pentchev
2020-03-28 16:03 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2020-03-26 1:20 ` Tony Finch
2020-03-27 10:51 ` Derek Fawcus
2020-03-09 23:22 ` [TUHS] First appearance of named pipes Grant Taylor via TUHS
2020-03-10 7:29 ` arnold
2020-03-11 2:47 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2020-03-11 7:02 ` arnold
2020-03-10 13:49 ` Chet Ramey
2020-03-10 20:26 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-03-10 20:37 ` Chet Ramey
2020-03-11 2:51 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2020-03-08 21:42 Paul Ruizendaal
2020-03-08 22:04 ` Jon Steinhart
2020-03-06 20:41 Paul Ruizendaal
2020-03-06 21:06 ` Clem Cole
2020-03-06 21:10 ` Clem Cole
2020-03-07 5:08 ` Heinz Lycklama
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