[MPlayer-dev-eng] Re: kernel: to do_select(pipe) or not to do

[Jan Knutar]

On Tuesday 23 November 2004 11:30, Alexander Strasser wrote:

>  - it _never_ worked as expected... (shame on us we didn't see)
>  - it seems/is plain stupid to have a blocking pipe as input buffer
>    even if we try to use it in a non-blocking manner ( and this wasn't done right )

So the pipe basically serves as a FIFO and nothing else? It's never used
for interprocess communication or similar?