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[Andrew Koenig]

In article <1345 at cod.NOSC.MIL>, waagen at cod.NOSC.MIL (Don E. Waagen) writes:
-> 
->    I'm trying to have two processes communicate via a pipe (stdout), like 
-> 
-> 			A | B
-> 
-> but with a small difference.  Process A will never die (i.e. the connection 
-> will never be closed).  What I would like to do is have the fread and getchar()
-> calls of process B sense or think that it is seeing the pipe close (i.e. an EOF
-> character returned by the calls) without closing the connection.

Sorry, but it's completely impossible in most systems.
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				--Andrew Koenig
				  ark at europa.att.com