Regular pipe vs. Named Pipe

Chip Salzenberg chip at tct.com
Wed Jun 12 05:15:45 AEST 1991


According to brnstnd at kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein):
>Pipes are part of UNIX.  Named pipes aren't.

The second quoted sentence is vacuous.  There is no longer any one OS
that can be called "UNIX".

>Basically, pipes work the same way everywhere, and named pipes don't.

Granted.
-- 
Chip Salzenberg at Teltronics/TCT     <chip at tct.com>, <uunet!pdn!tct!chip>
          perl -e 'sub do { print "extinct!\n"; }   do do()'



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