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On 04/27/2012 12:56 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> What it does is add a new "packetized" flag to pipes, which does two
> simple things:
>  - do not merge write data in pipe buffers when writing
>  - when reading, consider a pipe buffer to be "spent" when any of the
> data has been read
> 

Why not just use the already existing SOCK_SEQPACKET sockets?

	-hpa