Re: [LUG] point of named pipes?

[Jon Still <jon@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Named pipes are part of the file system, so that rules out networking 
really, unless you use NFS (Warning: kludge alert).

Now AFAIK the main uses of named pipes are for simple interprocess 
communications, without the overhead of AF_UNIX sockets (or even 
AF_INET).  For example /dev/log is a named pipe I think, used for 
communication with syslogd locally.

These days people do tend to just use AF_INET sockets and connect to 
loopback.

J.

On Tue, 2 Jul 2002, Adrian Midgley wrote:

> I've been looking at named pipes.
>
> Is the sort of thing I might do with a named pipe on the network to have a 
> program reading from it, and several programs intermittently opening it to 
> write into, as a way of avoiding concurrent updates to a single log file?
>
> Or is that much better done in other ways, in whcih case what is the point of 
> them?

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