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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Blocking with pipes.
Date: 29 Sep 1996 14:07:12 GMT
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averba@eden.rutgers.edu (Andrew Verba) wrote:
> while(read(fd[0],string,50) > 0 ) {
> do something with string;
> }
> Why does this read some of the input from the executing file and then
> hang (block) ?
I can't get it to work either. It works when using two pipes,
however. I think your called application gets confused that stdin and
stdout do refer to the same object. Well, not sure, just a wild
guess...
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cheers, J"org
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