[Haskell-cafe] whatever happened to sendFile?

[Richard A. O'Keefe]

On 15 Aug 2008, at 12:17 pm, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote:
> Actually, while I'm not sure how Linux does it, on the *BSDs pipes  
> are actually socketpairs.

This raises the question, which the documentation did not make clear  
to me,
whether a "named pipe" is a pipe.  One would hope it was, but
S_IFIFO and S_IFSOCK are different...