Messages in this thread | | | From | Steffen Grunewald <> | Subject | Re: Operations permitted on a pipe | Date | Mon, 20 Sep 1999 19:56:58 +0200 (MET DST) |
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=?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F6rg?= Pleumann: > > Hello, > > I'd like to know which file operations are permitted on a pipe created > by the corresponding system call: Is it possible (and legal) to get the > number of bytes in the pipe using lseek and is there a way to peek into > the pipe? Is the pipe disposed when one of the two handles is closed, > and what is the state of the other handle then?
Look into Stevens' wonderful book, it has a chapter on pipes and what to do (and not to do) with them. Of course there's a man page for lseek, too...
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