[ILUG] NTFS style pipes on Linux

John P. Looney john at antefacto.com
Wed Aug 29 10:57:24 IST 2001


On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 10:53:21AM +0100, Dave Airlie mentioned:
> 
> Hi,
> 	NT using NTFS has support I am lead to believe for multicast style
> named pipes... as in if 5 processes open the pipe for read/write, anything
> written by one process is sent to all the others for reading...

 What's the difference between that, and having a pipe with five symbolic
links to it ?

Kate

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