Re: The joy of pipes

On Mon, 18 Nov 2024 09:20:23 +0000, Pancho wrote:

I've no idea why using IPC to send megabytes of data between different
processes is wrong.

It is something I have done. It’s perfectly commonplace.

Although to be fair we very rarely used pipes, directly, almost never.

I have used pipes, I have used Unix sockets, I have used network sockets.

If you are running a Linux GUI, then almost certainly it is built on D-Bus
as a high-level IPC mechanism that is used as a core component. That is
designed to run over Unix sockets. It is not itself designed for high-
bandwidth data transfers; if you want to do that, you can exchange your
own D-Bus messages to set up custom pipe or Unix socket connections
between bus peers.

It was always something like REST or message queues.

Message queues are an OS-provided primitive, but REST is not -- that is a
protocol, not a transport. What transport(s) did you use for that? I would
assume network connections.