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Re: HEADS UP: Win32/OS2/BeOS native ports

Jan Wieck <janwieck@yahoo.com>

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From: Jan Wieck <janwieck@yahoo.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Igor Kovalenko <Igor.Kovalenko@motorola.com>, Matthew Kirkwood <matthew@hairy.beasts.org>, "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org>, mlw <markw@mohawksoft.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2002-05-09T13:48:33Z
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Tom Lane wrote:
> "Igor Kovalenko" <Igor.Kovalenko@motorola.com> writes:
> > I was talking about named pipe vs UDS socket...
>
> Aren't those the same thing?  You get a socket file either way.

    No  they  are  not.  The  former is a FIFO file, the latter a
    socket.   FIFO's  can  be  used  via  open(2),  sockets   via
    connect(2).   And as said before, FIFO's are there since UNIX
    Version 7 (at least, I haven't been around before  that).  So
    there  is  a  good  chance  that these are available on every
    UNIX.


Jan

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