how to create stream pipe (S5R3) ?
Larry Philps
larry at hcr.UUCP
Tue Jan 17 01:12:15 AEST 1989
In article <244 at hsi86.hsi.UUCP> stevens at hsi.UUCP writes:
>I'm trying to figure out how to create a "stream pipe" with System 5,
>Release 3.2 (386 version). The streamio(7) man page says the only
>way to pass a file descriptor is using these, but I can't find
>any reference as to how a stream pipe is created. In Steve
>Bellovin's "Session TTY Manager" paper from the San Francisco
>Usenix, he describes the "strange" way they're created under
>Research Unix, but I can't find any mention of /dev/spx in my
>System 5 manuals.
>
> Richard Stevens
> Health Systems International, New Haven, CT
> stevens at hsi.com
> ... { uunet | yale } ! hsi ! stevens
Call the function "spipe" exactly as you would call "pipe" and then link
your program against the -lns library.
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