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From: andrew@alice.UUCP (Andrew Hume)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: reliable reads from pipes
Summary: not always
Message-ID: <11155@alice.UUCP>
Date: 7 Aug 90 05:35:02 GMT
References: <1990Aug3.233256.29659@NCoast.ORG> <712@tetrauk.UUCP>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill NJ
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	lest anyone start relying on reads returning whatever is in the pipe,
9th edition and later unices preserved the size of the writes which can
now also exceed the size of the pipe buffer (i think).