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From: gsteckel@vergil.East.Sun.COM (Geoff Steckel - Sun BOS Hardware CONTRACTOR)
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Subject: Re: Ideas for changes to Unix filesystem
Summary: what about pipes?
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Date: 13 Feb 91 20:44:06 GMT
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In article <BZS.91Feb7163251@world.std.com> bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein) writes:
>Since all flink() would do is enter a string/i-num pair into a
>directory I can't see how any of this applies.

Ummm... pipes USED to be implemented as `nameless' files on PIPEDEV, with
some strange semantics to make the read/write pointers wrap around at 10
blocks (or whatever size pipes were).  You wanna link one of THOSE into
the file system?  (:-)
	regards,
	geoff steckel (gwes@wjh12.harvard.EDU)
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