On 17-Mar-01 Peter Pentchev wrote:
> Actually, I want socketpair(2). pipe(2) was what I used before,
> and that's the reason I had a read-only file descriptor - the portalfs
> architecture allows for only one fd to be returned, and pipe(2)
> provides a one-way pipe. I dup2'd stdout and stderr of the executed
> program to the child fd, and the parent could read its output, yet
> not write to its stdin.
pipe's are bidirectional in FreeBSD..
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Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
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