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From: freedman@mips2.cr.bull.com (Jerome Freedman)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: named pipes and unix sockets
Keywords: I recently investigated unix domain sockets and named pipes
Message-ID: <1990Jun11.170910.7329@mips2.cr.bull.com>
Date: 11 Jun 90 17:09:10 GMT
Organization: Bull HN Information Systems Inc.
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for an application. The FM is really uninformative about
named pipes by the way as were most of the other "standard
references". I found useable/understandable examples in
"Unix Network Programming" although even these were rather
spare. So my questions:

   1) Is there anything out there in public domain that
actually uses named pipes?

   2) If not (and I almost would bet on this) why are they
there?

   3) What about Unix domain sockets vs named pipes? They 
look about the same except that they look different ;)


                                 Jerry Freedman,Jr