Re: The joy of pipes

On Sat, 16 Nov 2024 23:59:41 -0500, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:

On 11/16/24 5:31 AM, Richard Kettlewell wrote:

 
“Temporary files the parent can access” is not a good model for a
couple of reasons:
 
* The semantics are different. Bytes read from a regular file are still
   there to be read again if you rewind the file; bytes read from a
   pipe are gone. Empty/full files behave differently to empty/full
   pipes.
 
* Temporary regular files can already be accessed by other processes by
   name, by file descriptor inheritance, or file descriptor passing.

 
Didn't say temp disk files were necessarily SUPERIOR, just that they
CAN do most of the stuff pipes are used for and in an easier
user/code-friendly fashion.

Not really, no.

SIZE is almost unlimited too.

That is another reason they don’t work.