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| author | peter <peter@FreeBSD.org> | 1996-04-03 04:57:27 +0000 |
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| committer | peter <peter@FreeBSD.org> | 1996-04-03 04:57:27 +0000 |
| commit | 14009d1ae054998506dbe2ac7d4b3b8d471e0df0 (patch) | |
| tree | dfdf961943491da65bf265a28e3e66768afe74ff /lib | |
| parent | d0c71521cd29101e1d4196e03b1161d0cd34c096 (diff) | |
| download | FreeBSD-src-14009d1ae054998506dbe2ac7d4b3b8d471e0df0.zip FreeBSD-src-14009d1ae054998506dbe2ac7d4b3b8d471e0df0.tar.gz | |
Remove outdated (and never quite correct anyway) reference to the
"fact" that pipes were implemented as calls to socketpair().
Diffstat (limited to 'lib')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/libc/sys/pipe.2 | 4 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/sys/pipe.2 b/lib/libc/sys/pipe.2 index b05eeb2..763cc2f 100644 --- a/lib/libc/sys/pipe.2 +++ b/lib/libc/sys/pipe.2 @@ -80,10 +80,6 @@ Widowing a pipe is the only way to deliver end-of-file to a reader: after the reader consumes any buffered data, reading a widowed pipe returns a zero count. .Pp -Pipes are really a special case of the -.Xr socketpair 2 -call and, in fact, are implemented as such in the system. -.Pp The bidirectional nature of this implementation of pipes is not portable to older systems, so it is recommended to use the convention for using the endpoints in the traditional manner when using a |
