bug#9089: [1003.1(2008)/Issue 7 0000205]: Shell pipeline connection requirement too vague

[Jonathan Nieder]

Hi,

Eric Blake wrote:
> According to David Korn on 1/7/2010 1:46 PM:

>> The simplest change to the standard would be to require that recv()
>> work on pipes as well as sockets.
>
> Is this something we should pursue further, to get to a point where pipe()
> is not so bad to use?

Does any Unix-like platform aside from Linux lack that feature?  Is
there any architectural consideration that would make MSG_PEEK
difficult to implement for Linux's pipes?  (For the former, I have no
clue, while for the latter, I suspect not.)

If not, I suppose we should take this to LKML.  Thanks; this sounds
like it would be a nice feature.

Regards,
Jonathan