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From: emmonsl@athena.ecs.csus.edu (L. Scott Emmons)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer
Subject: Re: More on how to do a pipe (was re: system() problem)
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Date: 7 Mar 91 17:50:46 GMT
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In article <2506@travis.csd.harris.com> brad@SSD.CSD.HARRIS.COM (Brad Appleton) writes:
>I hate to be critical but I didnt care for the way the status codes from
>dup2 and pipe were ignored.

Actually, I left all that stuff out for the sake of making the example as
short as possible, not because it should be ignored in actual implementation.
Thanks for your response, though, and yes, of course all of the return codes
should be used for an actual implementation...

			L. Scott Emmons
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