Re: Use FIFO in preference to TCP for redirectors.

Robert Collins wrote:

> Then I think we should commit the patch I posted for 2.5, as AFAIK it
> certainly won't make things worse. It can always get replaced by the
> domain socket branch when thats mature.

I prefer to first figure out WHY he had problems. Helpers dying only because TCP/IP
sockets is used instead of pipes smells very ugly to me.

Please note that pipes behave quite differently from sockets, especially in
non-blocking I/O implementations and I/O buffer sizes.

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Henrik