On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 08:21:22 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > Could you (or anyone else here) give us a really dumbed-down summary > > of why a dev would want/need to use a socket, versus a pipe, versus > > a signal, versus dbus, versus, well, whatever else is out there?
Alan's answered all of this except the last part. Whatever else includes FIFOs, which are basically pipes that act like files. One program writes to it, another reads from it. Alan's comments about pipes apply here too.
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