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From: rvp@softserver.canberra.edu.au (Rey Paulo)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: A Pipe Question
Message-ID: <1991May24.025917.18874@csc.canberra.edu.au>
Date: 24 May 91 02:59:17 GMT
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Sender: Rey V. Paulo
Organization: University of Canberra
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Assume I have created a pipe in my C program.  Assume further that
one end of the pipe is to be written to by a child process while the
other end is to be read from by the parent process.  What I am wondering
is this.  Suppose if the child has written something into the pipe and
exited, could the parent still read what has been written by the child
from the reading end of the pipe even if the child is already dead?
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Rey V. Paulo                  | Internet:  rvp@csc.canberra.edu.au 
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