Re: PROPOSAL: extend pipe() to support NULL argument.

[David Newall]

Changli Gao wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 5:02 AM, Zan Lynx<zlynx@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>   
>> But perhaps mkfifo(NULL) should be the syscall chosen to extend since its
>> parameters are much like open() already, and it seems to work in the above
>> sequence to create a one-FD FIFO already.
>>
>>     
> It sounds a good idea.
>   

I disagree.  I disbelieve that the cost of two fds per pipe is too high.
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