Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 2 Jul 2009 11:42:07 +0100 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: PROPOSAL: extend pipe() to support NULL argument. |
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On Thu, 2 Jul 2009 17:18:49 +0800 Changli Gao <xiaosuo@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 5:13 PM, Amerigo Wang<xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 02, 2009 at 03:36:41PM +0800, Changli Gao wrote: > > > > Why? Why do you need this feature? > > > Are you familiar with splice() and tee()? They both use pipes as kernel buffers.
And are being used quite happily with the pipe() call. So what is the problem ?
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