Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!mcvax!unido!pcsbst!jh From: jh@pcsbst.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: Portable inter process communication - (nf) Message-ID: <4300008@pcsbst.UUCP> Date: 28 Nov 87 16:33:00 GMT References: <143@tic.UUCP> Lines: 10 Nf-ID: #R:tic:-14300:pcsbst:4300008:000:354 Nf-From: pcsbst!jh Nov 28 17:33:00 1987 Pay attention to the deadlock dangers when communicating with pipes in both directions. If both pipes block writes because they are full a deadlock is caused. It is *very* hard to avoid this in general. In some cases you can set up a protocol which uses packets up to a certain size (PIPSIZ in some implementations). Johannes Heuft unido!pcsbst!jh