From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from archone.tamu.edu ([128.194.53.42]) by hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu with SMTP id <2679>; Thu, 28 May 1992 12:31:49 -0400 Received: by archone.tamu.edu id <45322>; Thu, 28 May 1992 11:31:38 -0500 From: Byron Rakitzis To: rc@archone.tamu.edu Subject: dopipe bug Message-Id: <92May28.113138cdt.45322@archone.tamu.edu> Date: Thu, 28 May 1992 12:31:24 -0400 clearly the wrong answer is to use -1 as a value for fd_out, since this is supposed to be "1" at the end of a pipe. also it's probably a bad idea to debate rc implementation details on this list since 90% of the people don't give a damn. (The solution will probably involve setting up explicit flags for end-of-pipe, and so on, but I'm not going to work on that right now.)