Tom Lane wrote:
> "Igor Kovalenko" <Igor.Kovalenko@motorola.com> writes:
> > I was talking about named pipe vs UDS socket...
>
> Aren't those the same thing? You get a socket file either way.
No they are not. The former is a FIFO file, the latter a socket. FIFO's can be used via open(2),
sockets via connect(2). And as said before, FIFO's are there since UNIX Version 7 (at least, I haven't been
aroundbefore that). So there is a good chance that these are available on every UNIX.
Jan
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