Re: preventing pipe reader from existing on writer exiting

[Andreas Schwab]

"Brian J. Murrell" <brian@interlinx.bc.ca> writes:

> Can anyone help?  Ultimately I need to do I/O through a named pipe and I
> need to be able to restart the writer without restarting the reader.

Just make sure the write side of the pipe is not closed prematurely.

$ (n=0; while [ $n -lt 10 ]; do cat /dev/zero; let n=$n+1; done) > /tmp/fifo &

Andreas.

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