On Sun, 12 May 2002, D Richard Felker III wrote: > On Sun, May 12, 2002 at 02:53:27PM +0200, Eric Lammerts wrote: > > I rewrote the patch to use a socketpair. > > Why? A pipe is much cleaner to use than a socketpair, IMO. Why is that? A socketpair means slightly less code, because you'd need two pipes to establish two-way communication. Eric