On 01Jan2021 01:21, jak <nos...@please.ty> wrote: >Il 01/01/2021 00:58, 2qdxy4rzwzuui...@potatochowder.com ha scritto: >>Most of the time, I have several shells open, often with their own >>background jobs running. Limiting write permission on the pipe to "me" >>wouldn't prevent concurrent access. > >This is true but there would be no difference if this happened through >a socket.
Accessing a socket makes a distinct separate data connection - other openers do not conflict with it. That's the critical difference between a socket and a pipe in terms of functionality, and why sockets have a connect/accept step. Cheers, Cameron Simpson <c...@cskk.id.au> -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
