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From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals
Subject: Re: Names pipes or	UNIX domain sockets?
Message-ID: <2J1C.5B@xds13.ferranti.com>
Date: 20 Jun 91 18:46:53 GMT
References: <1991Jun15.204226.25191@ms.uky.edu>
Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
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In article <1991Jun15.204226.25191@ms.uky.edu> sean@ms.uky.edu (Sean Casey) writes:
> One thing I noticed is that when a program opens a named pipe, and
> there's nothing else that has it open, then it just blocks
> indefinitely, while a UNIX domain socket will get the connection
> refused if there's nothing to listen.

Can't you open with O_NDELAY or equivalent?
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