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