Names pipes or UNIX domain sockets?

[Peter da Silva]

In article <1991Jun15.204226.25191 at ms.uky.edu> sean at ms.uky.edu (Sean Casey) writes:
> One thing I noticed is that when a program opens a named pipe, and
> there's nothing else that has it open, then it just blocks
> indefinitely, while a UNIX domain socket will get the connection
> refused if there's nothing to listen.

Can't you open with O_NDELAY or equivalent?
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