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From: dot@dotat.at (Tony Finch)
Subject: [TUHS] long lived programs
Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2018 16:00:03 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.11.1804061558140.19380@grey.csi.cam.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1522962186.9871.for-standards-violators@oclsc.org>

Norman Wilson <norman at oclsc.org> wrote:
>
> We'd done it just by making pipe(2) create a stream.  This caused some
> subtle differences in semantics (pipes became full-duplex; writing to a
> pipe put a delimiter in the stream, so that a corresponding read on the
> other end would stop at the delimiter;

Was it 4.4BSD which implemented pipe() using socketpair() under the
covers? Full-duples like streams, but without the delimiters.

Tony.
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-04-06 15:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-04-05 21:03 Norman Wilson
2018-04-05 21:23 ` Clem Cole
2018-04-05 21:38   ` Bakul Shah
2018-04-06  2:03     ` Random832
2018-04-06  4:27       ` Warner Losh
2018-04-06  4:31         ` Jon Steinhart
2018-04-06  4:58         ` Steve Nickolas
2018-04-06  5:02           ` Jon Steinhart
2018-04-06  4:29       ` Steve Johnson
2018-04-06  5:57       ` Bakul Shah
2018-04-06 21:52         ` Peter Jeremy
2018-04-05 22:46   ` Arthur Krewat
2018-04-05 23:23   ` Paul Winalski
2018-04-05 23:33     ` Arthur Krewat
2018-04-06  0:05       ` Toby Thain
2018-04-06  4:51 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-04-06 15:00 ` Tony Finch [this message]
2018-04-07 20:41 ` Paul Winalski
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2018-04-06 22:33 Doug McIlroy
2018-04-07  1:01 ` Paul Winalski
2018-04-07  1:09   ` Larry McVoy
2018-03-23 18:27 [TUHS] long lived programs (was Re: RIP John Backus Bakul Shah
2018-03-23 20:50 ` [TUHS] long lived programs Steve Johnson
2018-03-23 21:07   ` Clem Cole
2018-03-23 15:51 Ron Natalie
2018-03-23 15:57 ` Clem Cole
2018-03-23 16:25   ` Lars Brinkhoff
2018-03-23 16:59     ` Lawrence Stewart
2018-03-23 17:31       ` Steve Nickolas
2018-03-23 16:32   ` Ron Natalie

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