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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@transmeta.com>
To: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: bidirectional named pipe?
Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2001 17:38:40 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3A85ED20.761E8240@transmeta.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E14OxTz-0007yS-00@the-village.bc.nu> <3A81D5B4.9CBC9B0D@kasey.umkc.edu> <95v90g$ke6$1@cesium.transmeta.com> <20010210181246.C8934@metastasis.f00f.org>

Chris Wedgwood wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 03:10:08PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 
>     I would really like it if open() on a socket would be the same
>     thing to connect to a socket as a client.  I don't think it's a
>     good idea to do that for the server side, though, since it would
>     have to know about accept() anyway.
> 
> things like this (non-portable hacks) belong in libc surely?
> 

Not if it makes more sense to implement in the kernel.  I can't think of
a way to implement it in glibc without races, perhaps you can.

	-hpa

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  reply	other threads:[~2001-02-11  1:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-02-03  0:33 bidirectional named pipe? 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
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 [this message]
2001-02-10  0:31     ` David L. Nicol
2001-02-10  1:37       ` Doug McNaught
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-02-03  0:49 Miller, Brendan
2001-02-03  4:55 Miller, Brendan

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