Bidrectional Subprocess Communication

[Gabriel Genellina]

En Sun, 14 Dec 2008 06:03:26 -0200, greg <greg at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz>  
escribió:
> Gabriel Genellina wrote:
>
>> (Pipes don't work the same as sockets, although unix-like systems try  
>> hard  to hide the differences...)
>
> BSD-based unixes implement pipes using socketpair(), so
> pipes actually *are* sockets (or at least they used to be,
> not sure whether it's still true).

But not on Linux; a visible difference is that pipes are half-duplex on  
Linux (it seems that's enough for POSIX). I don't know for sure how  
they're implemented on Windows but they seem to be file system objects  
(they use functions like CreateFile, ReadFile, WriteFile, etc.)

-- 
Gabriel Genellina