Re: Are We Back to the "Wars" Now ?

On 11/21/2024 02:22, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

On Thu, 21 Nov 2024 02:05:46 -0500, Phillip Frabott wrote:
 

On 11/19/2024 19:23, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
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On Mon, 18 Nov 2024 09:45:07 -0500, Phillip Frabott wrote:
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I think the point that is being made by calling pipes a "temp files"
is that they are not persistent.

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Named pipes can indeed be persistent.

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Sure, but then your just creating a file with all the limitations that
come from that.

 Not at all. It still has the same synchronization behaviour.
 

IPC only benefits you when you use unnamed or traditional pipes
(performance and resources).

 Certainly not.

I guess it just depends on what you are doing. And in perspective, most pipes are generally used for small amounts of data, the smaller then data the less benefits you see between unnamed vs named pipes. I mean 100-bytes has zero performance differences between named and unnamed while a 10MB pipe will always show that unnamed pipes are faster then named pipes. So it's just depends on what you are doing and the data you have. But as far as I know named pipes still go away when you turn the machine off unless you are redirecting /tmp to hard storage.
And to be fair, I don't use named pipes as much as I used to so perhaps things have changed. I've never had a good reason to use named pipes in code in a very long time.
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Phillip Frabott
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