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[Doug Gwyn]

In article <7104 at rpp386.Dallas.TX.US> jfh at rpp386.Dallas.TX.US (The Beach Bum) writes:
-In article <8572 at smoke.ARPA> gwyn at brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>) writes:
->In article <1247 at imagine.PAWL.RPI.EDU> kyriazis at turing.cs.rpi.edu (George Kyriazis) writes:
->>	command | vax
->No, the pipe will constipate since the "vax" command (equivalent to :)
->does not read its input.
-No, the command will abort with SIGPIPE.

Oops, exactly what happens depends on the relative process speeds but
indeed SIGPIPE is the eventual outcome some time after constipation.