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On Sun, 18 Feb 2024 23:10:10 +0100, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:

> On 2024-02-18 21:56, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>> On Sun, 18 Feb 2024 11:06:16 +0100, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
>> 
>>> On 2024-02-18 01:00, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>>
>>>> I thought Windows had pipes.
>>>
>>> Yes it has, but very rarely used though much better designed than UNIX
>>> pipes.
>> 
>> So why don’t programmers use it?
> 
> There is no need in that.

It would be so much simpler to use the OS-provided facility, than having 
to resort to this complicated library which is trying to wrap a stream 
interface around shared-memory buffers.

At least, it would be in POSIX. No doubt the Windows API makes it more 
complicated ...

>>> In general Windows has much richer and better API regarding
>>> interprocess communication than Linux.
>> 
>> So why is it that Windows programs tend to avoid running multiple
>> processes?
> 
> Because there is no need in multiple processes most of the time. Windows
> has a different philosophy and services which preclude the process orgy
> so characteristic to UNIX. For example, Windows has and collects many
> resources when a process dies. So you do not need a process monitoring
> file locks, because there is no any.

Windows is the one that keeps files locked, *nix systems typically do not.