Re: problem opening multiple pipes with pipe(2) in 2.4.1[78]

[Alan Cox]

On Tue, 2002-10-22 at 13:43, Doug McNaught wrote:
> sean finney <[e-mail]> writes:
> 
> > right.  the perror() giving nonsensical results wasn't the cause of my
> > problem of course, i was just trying to use it to find out why the pipe
> > didn't seem to work.  turns out that i missed the forest for the trees;
> > the pipe was being opened for writing from the wrong end...
> > 
> > (as a side note, the code in question was written on a solaris box, and
> > it seems to Just Work in the wrong direction there, go fig.)
> 
> SysV pipes are bidirectional.

Only on later SYS5 8)