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From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Can UNIX pipe connections be compiled?
Message-ID: <5399@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 20 Jan 91 23:58:41 GMT
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>However, let's not forget that member of the pipe family that is a
>certain member of the filesystem, namely, the "named pipe".  

It may be a member of the file system, but in many flavors of UNIX -
including SunOS and, I think, S5R4 - a named pipe may have a *name*
that's in the file system, but I/O to or from a named pipe doesn't go
through the file system.