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.SS Portability notes
On some systems (but not Linux), pipes are bidirectional:
data can be transmitted in both directions between the pipe ends.
-According to POSIX.1-2001, pipes only need to be unidirectional.
+According to POSIX.1-2001, pipes need only need be unidirectional.
Portable applications should avoid reliance on
bidirectional pipe semantics.
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