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From: Jamie Lokier <lk@tantalophile.demon.co.uk>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: "Miller, Brendan" <Brendan.Miller@Dialogic.com>,
	"'linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org'" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: bidirectional named pipe?
Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2001 15:28:56 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010203152856.A30376@pcep-jamie.cern.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <EFC879D09684D211B9C20060972035B1D4684F@exchange2ca.sv.dialogic.com> <E14OxTz-0007yS-00@the-village.bc.nu>
In-Reply-To: <E14OxTz-0007yS-00@the-village.bc.nu>; from alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk on Sat, Feb 03, 2001 at 07:51:41AM +0000

Alan Cox wrote:
> > /dev/spx".  I experiemented with socket-based pipes under Linux, but I
> > couldn't gain access to them by open()ing the name.  Is there help?  I
> 
> AF_UNIX sockets are bidirectional but like all sockets use bind() and
> connect().

And that's because sockets don't behave like bidirectional fifos.
Each connection to a socket is a distinct stream.

-- Jamie
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  reply	other threads:[~2001-02-03 14:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-02-03  0:33 Miller, Brendan
2001-02-03  0:47 ` J . A . Magallon
2001-02-03  2:41 ` Wakko Warner
2001-02-03  7:51 ` Alan Cox
2001-02-03 14:28   ` Jamie Lokier [this message]
2001-02-07 23:09   ` David L. Nicol
2001-02-08 23:10     ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-02-10  5:12       ` Chris Wedgwood
2001-02-11  1:38         ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-02-10  0:31     ` David L. Nicol
2001-02-10  1:37       ` Doug McNaught
2001-02-03  0:49 Miller, Brendan
2001-02-03  4:55 Miller, Brendan

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