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Subject: Re: [9fans] trying to understand how fork/pipe a filtering program
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 23:43:49 -0400
From: geoff@plan9.bell-labs.com
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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.