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Subject: Re: bidirectional named pipe?
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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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