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From: rpotter@grip.cis.upenn.edu (Robert Potter)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer
Subject: generate EOF on socketpair?
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Date: 31 Mar 91 21:52:26 GMT
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I am trying to write a replacement for popen() that returns a socket for
two-way communication with some program's standard I/O.  My implementation is
along these lines:

int process_open(...)
{
    int sock[2];

    socketpair(AF_UNIX, SOCK_STREAM, 0, sock);
    if (vfork() == 0) {		/* are we the child? */
	dup2(sock[0], 0);
	dup2(sock[0], 1);
	execv(...);
    }
    return sock[1];
}

My problem:  how do I indicate to the program that it has reached EOF on its
standard input?  I can't just close the socket, since I want to keep the socket
open for reading.  Do I have to set up two separate sockets (or pipes)?

	-Robert