On Sat, Apr 07, 2001 at 07:06:14PM +0200, Jaromír Dolecek wrote:

 > An option here is to change back to unidirectional pipes and only allocate
 > the buffer for the "real" write end. 
 > I admit every possible solution is not quite ideal :-/

Well, I don't know if any code that relies on things created with pipe(2)
being bidirectional -- but the manual clearly states that they are uni-
directional, so if such applications exist, they're certainly not portable,
and, IMO, deserve to lose.

Going back to unidirectional is fine with me.

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        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>