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On Mon, 24 Feb 1997, Tim Waugh wrote: > What exactly is supposed to happen when doing a read() on a pipe that has > been closed? > Return EOF, if the last handle to the "write end" of the pipe is closed. > I have a routine to fork, redirect output to a pipe, and exec a child. > The parent reads from the pipe, and all is well until the child dies. > read() blocks -- is this correct behaviour? I'd like it to return with > some error or zero. 100% sure this is a bug in your program: Make sure you close the write handle in the parent process, this should fix it. Gerd l-w--w--w- 1 kraxel users 42 Jan 1 19:70 .signature <- /dev/null | ||||||||||||
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