|> There is a huge advantage to it, though: it would enable a way to let
|> programs written to read (or write) to a file rather talk to a
|> process. The problem with fifos is that there is only one data path,
|> so only one program can play this trick at a time, whereas with
|> sockets there is one data path for each connection open.
How easy would it be to implement bidirectional pipes?
-- Andreas Schwab "And now for something schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de completely different" schwab@gnu.org