Re: bidirectional named pipe?

[Alan Cox]

> I'm porting some software to Linux that requires use of a bidirectional,
> named pipe.  The architecture is as follows:  A server creates a named pipe

Pipes are not bidirectional in Linux. We follow traditional non stream
behaviour

> /dev/spx".  I experiemented with socket-based pipes under Linux, but I
> couldn't gain access to them by open()ing the name.  Is there help?  I

AF_UNIX sockets are bidirectional but like all sockets use bind() and
connect().