Bloomberg LP Interview Question for Financial Software Developers


Country: United States
Interview Type: Phone Interview




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Pipes aren't limited in size, message queues are.
Pipes can be integrated in systems using file descriptors, message queues have their own set of functions, though linux supports select(), poll(), epoll() and friends on the mqd_t.
Pipes, once closed, require some amount of cooperation on both sides to reestablish them, message queues can be closed and reopened on either side without the coorporation of the other side.
Pipes are flat, much like a stream, to impose a message structure you would have to implement a protocol on both sides, message queues are message oriented already, no care has to be taken to get, say, the fifth message in the queue.

- Apurva June 19, 2012 | Flag Reply
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Pipes can only be used by parent-child processes. Message queues does not have this restriction.

- Noobie September 21, 2012 | Flag Reply
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unnames pipes can be be used only between parent child processes.
Names Pipes(FIFO) can be used between unrelated process.

- BJ October 27, 2012 | Flag


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