From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: ron@ronnatalie.com (Ron Natalie)
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2018 18:13:02 -0500
Subject: [TUHS] EOF on pipes?
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Unix pipes are not allowed in non-smoking areas.

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Many years ago (when the dinosaurs were using V6), I had a crazy idea[*]
that a write(fd, 0, NULL) would somehow signal EOF to the reader i.e. a
subsequent read would wait for further data instead of ENOTOBACCO.