Peter Edwards <peter.edwards_at_openet-telecom.com> writes: > How would one "shut down" one direction of the pipe and still maintain > the other? I don't know how I can signal my intention not to read or > write to the end I leave open... man 2 shutdown > Is this portability issue so ridiculously out of date that the comment > in the pipe(2) manpage should be removed, or at least toned down? No, POSIX only guarantees the traditional behaviour. Bi-directional pipes are a non-portable BSDism. > It > seems silly to incur the costs of implementation you've mentioned and > then recommend that the feature not be used. It can still be useful for programs in the base system, which do not need to be unconditionally portable to non-BSD systems. DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - des_at_des.noReceived on Tue Feb 03 2004 - 07:37:21 UTC
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