Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!security!genrad!decvax!harpo!floyd!clyde!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!sri-unix!gwyn@brl-vld From: gwyn@brl-vld@sri-unix.UUCP Newsgroups: net.unix Subject: Re: reading and writing to another process Message-ID: <12441@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Wed, 5-Oct-83 17:57:40 EDT Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.12441 Posted: Wed Oct 5 17:57:40 1983 Date-Received: Thu, 20-Oct-83 02:19:25 EDT Lines: 7 From: Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) In general this will be timing-dependent, as the parent process and the child may get into a deadlock waiting for each other's communications. Various solutions work in different situations; practically all of them involve two pipes and a communications protocol to avoid deadlock.