svn commit: r236441 - head/lib/libc/sys
Robert Watson
rwatson at FreeBSD.org
Sun Jun 10 20:01:32 UTC 2012
On Sat, 2 Jun 2012, Ed Schouten wrote:
> Log:
> Remove invalid remark about pipes.
>
> The stat structures returned on pipes seems to contain all the
> information required by POSIX. Especially the wording "and thus to a
> pipe" makes little sense, because it seems to imply a certain
> relationship between sockets and pipes that simply isn't there.
No objection to the change; however, some historical commentary: the
relationship used to be there, as pipes were contructed from pairs of UNIX
domain sockets, as remained the case with fifos until quite recently.
Robert
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