Fifo files on 4.2?

[Chris Torek]

> From: gwyn at brl-tgr.ARPA (Doug Gwyn <gwyn>)

> For another, the 4.2BSD UNIX domain socket code was so buggy that one
> endangers his system by trying to use it.

Only the SOCK_DGRAM code!  Pipes are SOCK_STREAM socketpairs (well,
sort of), and only break if you run out of mbufs (but then exit()
panics if you run out of mbufs, so why worry about the sockets?).
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