Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ginosko!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!csd4.csd.uwm.edu!mailrus!ames!pacbell!att!chinet!les From: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Sysv pipes/FIFO's & blocking Message-ID: <9348@chinet.chi.il.us> Date: 24 Aug 89 18:46:11 GMT Reply-To: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell) Organization: Chinet - Public Access Unix Lines: 5 What is supposed to happen under sysV if a pipe or FIFO contains 3 characters and a read() requests 4 characters? What about fread()? Is it documented anywhere? Les Mikesell