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Subject: Re: [9fans] events
From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@plan9.bell-labs.com>
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Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 09:13:25 -0500
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While the program is sitting there doing nothing,
you can cat its /proc/pid/fd file to see what the
read offset on the pipe is -- that will tell you
whether the slave process has read any data
from the pipe.  If not, your generator program is
not generating.

Russ