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From: rminnich@super.ORG (Ronald G Minnich)
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Subject: Re: how can I get filename from file descriptor?
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Date: 15 Sep 89 20:16:01 GMT
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In article <10850@smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) writes:
>If your pipe implementation is any good (most are not), simply write 0
>bytes to it.
Well, now i am real curious. I tried this about 6 years ago on 
several unices, mostly on vaxes and 11s and such and a Fortune machine,
and i never saw a zero-length write make it through to a read.
So, anybody ever had this work? It would be kind of neat if it did...
Sign me,
Marveling in Maryland
ron