Does a pipe take a socket ... ?

[Pietro Cerutti]

Matthew Dillon wrote:
>     Nuh uh.  pipe() is a direct implementation... no sockets anywhere.
> 
>     Using socketpair() will eat sockets up, but using pipe() will not.

Right.
Just for reference, I'd suggest to read the heading comments on:

/usr/src/sys/kern/sys_pipe.c

> 
> 					-Matt



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