Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Path: utzoo!utgpu!cunews!bnrgate!bmers145!bmerh653!jasonc From: jasonc@bmerh653.bnr.ca (Jason Chen) Subject: Re: How can a child detect the death of its parent Message-ID: <1991Jun10.150007.8188@bmers145.bnr.ca> Sender: news@bmers145.bnr.ca Organization: Bell Northern Research, Ottawa, Canada References: <298@wimpy.nms.gdc.portal.com> Date: Mon, 10 Jun 91 15:00:07 GMT Your child will get an EOF from its next read(2) from the pipe, after the parent die. Jason Bell-Northern Research Ltd.