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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: A Pipe Question
Message-ID: <16262@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 24 May 91 22:03:06 GMT
References: <1991May24.025917.18874@csc.canberra.edu.au>
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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In article <1991May24.025917.18874@csc.canberra.edu.au> rvp@softserver.canberra.edu.au (Rey Paulo) writes:
-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?

Sure, unless somebody has badly broken your implementation of UNIX.