Re: If pipe excellent?

On Fri, 22 Dec 2006 06:46:28 +0800, Ronald wrote:

Does it has an excellent design?
Is it effective at speed and memory?
Is what and for what?
Is it a hack, or an excellent design originally? or both?
Is what? ANd what are you going to use it for?
itself
I used to heard it is a great invention.

You still have answered the question you've been asked multiple
times: what is "it"? What are you asking about?

It's `pipe'.

Ronald,

I think that your problem is that you haven't realised why the helpful
folks on here are asking these questions.

You are being asked what you want to do with the pipe because it is one
of several ways of communicating data between processes. Different methods
still exist because each has it's advantages, depending on the way you
want to use it.

As an example, shared memory would be a better way of communicating larger
amounts of data between processes: both shared memory and pipes are good,
just good at different things.

Hope this helps,
John McCallum

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