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From: geoff@plan9.bell-labs.com
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] trying to understand how fork/pipe a filtering program
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 23:43:49 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6f2597316d0e00150a0c4bd2cc06bcee@plan9.bell-labs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200608311955.k7VJtwv29679@demeter.cs.utwente.nl>

Maybe it's been too long a week, but I could have sworn that a Plan 9
pipe was a pair of unidirectional channels (queues in Streams
terminology), so closing one end would cause a zero-byte read at the
other, independently in each direction.  pipe(3) seems to support
this.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-09-01  3:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-30 22:46 Axel Belinfante
2006-08-30 23:05 ` geoff
2006-08-31 16:26 ` "Nils O. Selåsdal"
2006-08-31 19:55   ` Axel Belinfante
2006-08-31 20:15     ` rog
2006-08-31 20:24       ` Axel Belinfante
2006-08-31 20:24     ` rog
2006-08-31 20:45       ` Axel Belinfante
2006-09-01  3:43     ` geoff [this message]
2006-09-01 10:57       ` rog
2006-09-01 14:35 ` rog
2006-09-01 15:33   ` Skip Tavakkolian
2006-09-01 15:59     ` rog
2006-09-01 18:42       ` Skip Tavakkolian
2006-09-03 19:09   ` Axel Belinfante
2006-09-04 14:52     ` Gorka guardiola
2006-09-04 20:50       ` Gorka guardiola
2006-09-04 19:26     ` Skip Tavakkolian
2006-09-04 20:25       ` Francisco J Ballesteros

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