Subject: Re: reading from named pipes
To: None <current-users@NetBSD.ORG>
From: der Mouse <mouse@Collatz.McRCIM.McGill.EDU>
List: current-users
Date: 05/10/1995 09:47:15
> I have two processes reading from the same named pipe.
> The output written to the pipe seems to get evenly split between the
> two processes.
> Feature or bug?
Feature, I would say. Traditional pipes have always worked this way,
as have sockets. And (I just now tried it on SunOS 4.1.3) named pipes
do this under at least one other OS.
der Mouse
mouse@collatz.mcrcim.mcgill.edu