Re: more splitting

Bart Schaefer <[email protected]> Wed, 15 Apr 2026 13:02:55 -0700

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Mark and Dana have pretty much covered this, but:

On Wed, Apr 15, 2026 at 12:12 PM Ray Andrews <[email protected]> wrote:
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> It might have been designed differently but that's the way it is.

No, actually, it can't have been designed differently.  Pipes (and all
file descriptors) are an operating system construct, they don't know
what's on either end, they just move bytes.

To beat your laundry analogy to death, a pipe is the laundry basket
that carries the socks and undies from the washer to the dryer.