On Mon, Jun 14, 1999 at 10:51:37AM -0400, Todd Vierling wrote:
> On 10 Jun 1999, Chris G. Demetriou wrote:
> 
> : * fixing it wastes both kernel code space and pipe() execution cycles.
> : granted, not much of either, but some of each.
> 
> If `fixing it' means calling socketpair() from userspace and doing any
> necessary frobbing there, it actually means *reducing* kernel size (...and
> relegating pipe(2) to COMPAT_14).

pipe(2) is defined to be one-way. socketpair(2) creates a two-way pipe.

I didn't find any obvious way in the manual page to suppress one of the ways.
Hm. The libc wrapper could partially shutdown(2) the ends, I guess....

	-is


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