preserving message boundaries on named pipes - System V

[Wietse Z. Venema]

In article <571 at lehi3b15.csee.Lehigh.EDU> murrey at lehi3b15.csee.Lehigh.EDU (Erik Murrey) writes:
>System V.3.1 Unix
>
>Is it possible to preserve message boundaries on named pipes under
>System V?  For instance, if a process sends two separate messages (via
>two write()'s) down a named pipe, how can the receiver read those as
>two separate messages?  

Under UNIX, the reader just reads what the writer wrote into the pipe.
There are no magic cookies between the `data'. What you seem to want
is provided by the message-queue (the msgop(2) facilities.
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