Passing errors through pipes.

Jody Winston jody at shellbrc.UUCP
Sun Oct 7 05:52:40 AEST 1990


If I have program a piping information to program b.  ie.

a | b

If it is possible, how would one pass a read error from a to b
only using pipes (signals can't be used, sockets or streams can't
be used, and the error can't be imbeded in the data stream).

Jody Winston					uunet!shellbrc!jody
Shell Oil, Bellaire Research Center
3737 Bellaire Blvd.				(713) 663-2676
Hoston, TX 77001



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