From: Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org>
To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] First appearance of named pipes
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2020 07:26:10 +1100 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.2003110715490.64345@aneurin.horsfall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <178d5ef9-b188-ad63-2dc3-ff51541f6dc9@case.edu>
On Tue, 10 Mar 2020, Chet Ramey wrote:
> Yes, absolutely. Just like a pipe is a FIFO, a FIFO is just a pipe with
> a name that appears in the file system.
So they would still be subject to the same 8-block limit? I haven't
delved into the finer points of named pipes as I rarely use them.
Related question: are they the same as Unix-domain sockets? Oddly enough
I haven't used those much either.
-- Dave
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-03-10 20:26 UTC|newest]
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
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 [this message]
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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