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Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 19:19:38 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: fifos and named pipes
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In-Reply-To: <01ea01c0b712$868dfb00$0200a8c0@lifelesswks>; from robert.collins@itdomain.com.au on Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 09:06:14AM +1000

On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 09:06:14AM +1000, Robert Collins wrote:
>Just thought you'd like to know: named pipes under win32 (which I was
>considering using for the NT implementations) don't have the same
>semantics as under openBSD.... so I'm going with my roll-your-own
>approach .

What about regular pipes?  I suggested that you could just use those
along with some glue to duplicate handles between processes.

How do the semantics differ?

cgf