From 7184fada1191be5d8acf683a3ea3f1d159ff63b0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Wemm Date: Wed, 3 Apr 1996 04:57:27 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Remove outdated (and never quite correct anyway) reference to the "fact" that pipes were implemented as calls to socketpair(). --- lib/libc/sys/pipe.2 | 4 ---- 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/lib/libc/sys/pipe.2 b/lib/libc/sys/pipe.2 index b05eeb26c09c..763cc2fc7dfa 100644 --- a/lib/libc/sys/pipe.2 +++ b/lib/libc/sys/pipe.2 @@ -80,10 +80,6 @@ Widowing a pipe is the only way to deliver end-of-file to a reader: after the reader consumes any buffered data, reading a widowed pipe returns a zero count. .Pp -Pipes are really a special case of the -.Xr socketpair 2 -call and, in fact, are implemented as such in the system. -.Pp The bidirectional nature of this implementation of pipes is not portable to older systems, so it is recommended to use the convention for using the endpoints in the traditional manner when using a