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From: "Boyd Roberts" <boyd@fr.inter.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] weird print(2) problems...
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Date: Wed,  5 Sep 2001 21:10:47 +0200
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> Yes there is.  When the program I'm piping to reads zero bytes, it stops
> reading.  If it reads n > 0 bytes, it does not.

zero writes on pipes should probably be tossed.

just how do you figure out eof?