From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] bidirectional pipes From: forsyth@caldo.demon.co.uk MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="upas-brzaszhvusjuesckvrhepltzue" Date: Fri, 3 May 2002 08:19:14 +0100 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 861c830c-eaca-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --upas-brzaszhvusjuesckvrhepltzue Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit if it's really a pipe you can write 0 to have it read 0. just keep that up until it goes away or you become bored. --upas-brzaszhvusjuesckvrhepltzue Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Return-Path: <9fans-admin@cse.psu.edu> Received: from punt-2.mail.demon.net by mailstore for forsyth@caldo.demon.co.uk id 1020376678:20:06692:26; Thu, 02 May 2002 21:57:58 GMT Received: from psuvax1.cse.psu.edu ([130.203.4.6]) by punt-2.mail.demon.net id aa2110343; 2 May 2002 21:57 GMT Received: from psuvax1.cse.psu.edu (psuvax1.cse.psu.edu [130.203.16.6]) by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server) with ESMTP id 5A79D19A5A; Thu, 2 May 2002 17:56:07 -0400 (EDT) Delivered-To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Received: from collyer.net (collyer.ca [66.120.90.185]) by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server) with SMTP id 64BD919A5F for <9fans@cse.psu.edu>; Thu, 2 May 2002 17:55:11 -0400 (EDT) To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] bidirectional pipes MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <20020502215511.64BD919A5F@mail.cse.psu.edu> Sender: 9fans-admin@cse.psu.edu Errors-To: 9fans-admin@cse.psu.edu X-BeenThere: 9fans@cse.psu.edu X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.9 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu List-Id: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans.cse.psu.edu> List-Archive: Date: Thu, 2 May 2002 14:55:04 -0700 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. --upas-brzaszhvusjuesckvrhepltzue--