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From: gwyn@smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: more unix jokes - /dev/null
Message-ID: <8607@smoke.ARPA>
Date: 3 Oct 88 06:35:31 GMT
References: <8488@smoke.ARPA> <26090@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <1049@sybase.sybase.com> <1414@star.cs.vu.nl> <Sep.21.15.21.25.1988.3871@topaz.ru <7104@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <7104@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US> jfh@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US (The Beach Bum) writes:
-In article <8572@smoke.ARPA> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>) writes:
->In article <1247@imagine.PAWL.RPI.EDU> kyriazis@turing.cs.rpi.edu (George Kyriazis) writes:
->>	command | vax
->No, the pipe will constipate since the "vax" command (equivalent to :)
->does not read its input.
-No, the command will abort with SIGPIPE.

Oops, exactly what happens depends on the relative process speeds but
indeed SIGPIPE is the eventual outcome some time after constipation.