From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] trying to understand how fork/pipe a filtering program Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2006 08:33:02 -0700 From: Skip Tavakkolian <9nut@9netics.com> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: adadab9c-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > if you were guaranteed that the image data would fit into the pipe without > blocking, then you could wait for the process to exit before reading, > but the two pipe solution is preferable. or rendezvous