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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: how can I get filename from file descriptor?
Message-ID: <10850@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 28 Aug 89 08:14:53 GMT
References: <9353@chinet.chi.il.us> <1639@cbnewsl.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <1639@cbnewsl.ATT.COM> ams@cbnewsl.ATT.COM (andrew.m.shaw,580,) writes:
> Please tell me how to "send EOF" to a pipe reader without closing 
> the FIFO...

If your pipe implementation is any good (most are not), simply write 0
bytes to it.