On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 13:23, Michael Craig <mkscrg@gmail.com> wrote:
Brandon, can you elaborate? Are you talking about UNIX named pipes or FIFO/queue data structures in general?

I mean POSIX named pipes.  They work, but they don't do what most people think they do, and they're rather annoying to work with in general. 

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