reliable reads from pipes

[Boyd Roberts]

In article <11155 at alice.UUCP> andrew at alice.UUCP (Andrew Hume) writes:
>
>	lest anyone start relying on reads returning whatever is in the pipe,
>9th edition and later unices preserved the size of the writes which can
>now also exceed the size of the pipe buffer (i think).

Not to mention the 1 byte write nasty that will take out all your
stream message buffers.  The stream pipe fills when the write
side high water mark is hit; which is tunable.

Those M_DELIM's are neat...


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