Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: bidirectional named pipe? | Date | Sat, 3 Feb 2001 07:51:41 +0000 (GMT) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> I'm porting some software to Linux that requires use of a bidirectional, > named pipe. The architecture is as follows: A server creates a named pipe
Pipes are not bidirectional in Linux. We follow traditional non stream behaviour
> /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().
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