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From: bakul@bitblocks.com (Bakul Shah)
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2018 15:42:42 -0800
Subject: [TUHS] EOF on pipes?
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 24 Feb 2018 18:13:02 -0500."
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On Sat, 24 Feb 2018 18:13:02 -0500 "Ron Natalie" <ron at ronnatalie.com> wrote:
Ron Natalie writes:
> Unix pipes are not allowed in non-smoking areas.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
>  
> 
> 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.

pipe, ch(e)root.... Any more unix connections to smoking?