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

[Jan Knutar]

On Tuesday 23 November 2004 18:52, D Richard Felker III wrote:

> huh? what are you talking about? even if it were, a pipe is ONE-WAY!
> if you're trying to make communication between two processes in both
> directions over the same pipe, it's NOT going to work!!

So basically, someone was too lazy to write a FIFO implementation and
thought a pipe would be cute? :)