From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu May 7 18:00:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA13623 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 7 May 1998 18:00:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from pong.ping.at (pong.ping.at [193.81.13.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA13589 for ; Thu, 7 May 1998 18:00:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ahuber@ping.at) Received: from a011.static.Vienna.AT.EU.net (a011.static.Vienna.AT.EU.net [193.154.186.11]) by pong.ping.at (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id DAA10849 for ; Fri, 8 May 1998 03:00:20 +0200 (CEST) Message-Id: <199805080100.DAA10849@pong.ping.at> From: "Andreas Huber" To: "hackers@freebsd.org" Date: Fri, 08 May 1998 03:04:55 +0000 Reply-To: "Andreas Huber" X-Mailer: PMMail 1.96a For OS/2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Question about pipe() Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I was under the impression that if the write end of a pipe is closed, a read() at the other end of the pipe will return an error (or at least an EOF condition). Apparently it doesn't. Did I miss something? Is there another way to interrupt the read()? TIA, Andreas To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message