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

Phillip Frabott <nntp@fulltermprivacy.com> writes:

On 11/21/2024 13:38, Richard Kettlewell wrote:

This remark makes me wonder if you’ve got the wrong end of the stick
about what a named pipe is. They are really not the same as regular
files, temporary or otherwise.

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From a performance perspective they are. At least from the work I've
done. We had to drop named pipes solely because of the performance hit
because it is writing to a file system

The only filesystem write involve is the initial mkfifo(at) call. No
further filesystem writes are involved.

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