Subject: Re: bi-directional pipes?
To: Andrew Brown <atatat@atatdot.net>
From: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 02/04/2003 19:30:09 
On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 10:10:15PM -0500, Andrew Brown wrote:

 > just out of curiosity...how much less efficient is it?

Well, no zero-copy I/O, for one.  The point of the new pipe code
is to make a bunch of assumptions in order to optimize for pipe
use.

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        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>