ideas and questions for implementation of MessageMode in Named Pipes

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

mwhaaahahah, i just came up with a _horrible_ idea :)

how about: ripping out the use of unix-pipes altogether, and replacing
them with tdb (trivial database) in a mmap'd file?  the nice thing
about tdb is that it's LGPL'd.  the messages could be saved and
transferred via shared memory; tdb is multi-readable /
multi-writeable, and it would save a bitch-awful job of implementing a
shared memory sockets emulation layer (which i _have_ seen done,
once).

l.