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From: brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer
Subject: Re: how to use pipes (was: Re: system() question)
Message-ID: <8431:Mar803:27:1291@kramden.acf.nyu.edu>
Date: 8 Mar 91 03:27:12 GMT
References: <1991Mar3.214844.15444@csusac.csus.edu> <5866:Mar604:22:3791@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> <1991Mar7.180531.7907@csusac.csus.edu>
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In article <1991Mar7.180531.7907@csusac.csus.edu> emmonsl@athena.ecs.csus.edu (L. Scott Emmons) writes:
> In article <5866:Mar604:22:3791@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein) writes:
> >This is, of course, because you aren't waiting for the child to finish.
> Actually, it does finish...the child closes the pipeline down when it is done.

Irrelevant. Your parent does not call wait(), so your timings are wrong.

---Dan