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From: bill@zycor.UUCP (bill)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: alarm and named pipes (a.k.a. FIFO)
Keywords: alarm FIFO
Message-ID: <68@zycor.UUCP>
Date: 14 Nov 89 07:39:07 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: zycor, inc. omaha, nebraska
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A Sys V question...

If you set an alarm for, say, 3 seconds, then write to a named pipe
when there is no process reading from it, the alarm never kills the
read. Am I doing something wrong, or did I miss something in the FM?

-- 
Bill Mahoney
bill@zycor.UUCP
The holiday season: time to wonder if the Salvation Army has tanks...