From: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr) Subject: Re: using FIFO's in Linux Date: 9 Aug 1993 03:00:05 GMT
In article <23uhoj$8a0@ionews.io.org> las@io.org (Laszlo Herczeg) writes:
| Now, it does work, but only ONCE, so the process which has
| its stdin redirected to </dev/fifo exits with error level 0.
|
| Also the pair:
| cat whatever >/dev/fifo
| cat </dev/fifo >myfile
| works fine.
|
| My wish is to keep the collector process going indefinitely, possibly in the
| background.
| Anyone care to comment?
When the process writing the FIFO closes it the process reading the FIFO
get an EOF. That's the way it works in UNIX as far as I remember.
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