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From: ark@alice.UUCP (Andrew Koenig)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: end of file characters and open file descriptors
Message-ID: <8629@alice.UUCP>
Date: 30 Dec 88 01:56:31 GMT
References: <1345@cod.NOSC.MIL>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Liberty Corner NJ
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In article <1345@cod.NOSC.MIL>, waagen@cod.NOSC.MIL (Don E. Waagen) writes:
-> 
->    I'm trying to have two processes communicate via a pipe (stdout), like 
-> 
-> 			A | B
-> 
-> but with a small difference.  Process A will never die (i.e. the connection 
-> will never be closed).  What I would like to do is have the fread and getchar()
-> calls of process B sense or think that it is seeing the pipe close (i.e. an EOF
-> character returned by the calls) without closing the connection.

Sorry, but it's completely impossible in most systems.
-- 
				--Andrew Koenig
				  ark@europa.att.com