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Subject: pipe flushing
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Date: Thu, 20-Nov-86 11:53:54 EST
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Does any body know of any function to flush out
the write buffer at one end of a pipe?
and i don't want waht is flushed to go
through the pipe, i want is to be clean as if nothing were
to be written at all. or better yet, a function that
allows the write buffer to be removed(or not allocated at all).
and i'm using file descriptors......not FILE *fileptr.