ideas and questions for implementation of MessageMode in Named Pipes

[Juan Lang]

Hi Luke,

> 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).

The usual response around here is, show us some patches, and we'll let
you know ;-)

Some test cases showing us where we're deficient would be a great start, btw.
--Juan