On 10 February 2016, Marius Gedminas <mar...@gedmin.as> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 09, 2016 at 10:24:55PM +0200, LCD 47 wrote:
> > > - A socket (what ch_open() currently does)
> > > - A pipe (only possible with an associated job) connected to
> > > stdin/stdout/stderr.
> >
> > There are also UNIX domain sockets (a.k.a. named pipes), which
> > you get essentially for free once you have the code for INET
> > sockets. They are as efficient as (unnamed) pipes.
>
> Nitpick: Unix domain sockets and named pipes (aka FIFOs) are two
> different concepts.
>
> http://linux.die.net/man/7/unix
> http://linux.die.net/man/4/fifo
True, that. UNIX domain sockets are bidirectional, FIFOs are
unidirectional. Very different beasts. I was referring to UNIX domain
sockets.
/lcd
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