> A proper server needs that "accept" abstraction, which is completely missing from pipes. You can receive file descriptors over a UNIX socket, but yeah. That

> A proper server needs that "accept" abstraction, which is completely missing from pipes. You can receive file descriptors over a UNIX socket, but yeah. That said I don't see why a file descriptor is a good abstraction for a listening socket in the first place when you don't read() or write() to it.