GNU bug report logs - #36455
Question on reading from socket(pair) instead from pipe

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Package: grep;

Reported by: "Dr. Werner Fink" <werner <at> suse.de>

Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2019 06:23:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: "Dr. Werner Fink" <werner <at> suse.de>, 36455 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#36455: Question on reading from socket(pair) instead from pipe
Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2019 01:17:41 -0700

Dr. Werner Fink wrote:
> IMHO reading data from a FIFO/pipe or from a FSOCK/socket(pair) should result
> in the same result.

Yes it should, but only if you invoke 'grep' with the same arguments both times, 
which I expect you didn't. Look at the two execve lines in the strace output.
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