From: Geoff Collyer <geoff@collyer.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] bidirectional pipes
Date: Thu, 2 May 2002 14:55:04 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020502215511.64BD919A5F@mail.cse.psu.edu> (raw)
A reason to close one direction of a pipe is if the program
at the other end of the pipe is a filter (think "ssh system command")
and you need it to see EOF before you can be sure of getting
all its output back in the other direction.
next reply other threads:[~2002-05-02 21:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-05-02 21:55 Geoff Collyer [this message]
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2002-05-03 7:19 forsyth
2002-05-02 22:30 Russ Cox
2002-05-02 20:39 [9fans] getting at Windows files from VMware-hosted Plan 9 Scott Schwartz
2002-05-02 21:35 ` [9fans] bidirectional pipes Mike Haertel
2002-05-02 22:24 ` Scott Schwartz
2002-05-03 10:09 ` Boyd Roberts
2002-05-04 9:14 ` Steve Kilbane
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