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  3. From: Tom Christiansen <tchrist@convex.COM>
  4. Subject: Re: Help with named pipes
  5. Originator: tchrist@pixel.convex.com
  6. Sender: usenet@news.eng.convex.com (news access account)
  7. Message-ID: <1992Aug12.163401.5091@news.eng.convex.com>
  8. Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 16:34:01 GMT
  9. Reply-To: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen)
  10. References: <1992Aug12.140317.1603@rock.concert.net> <3310@ra.nrl.navy.mil> <1992Aug12.162224.3119@rock.concert.net>
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  17.  
  18. From the keyboard of cole@concert.net (Derrick C. Cole):
  19. :You're right!  It should be while(1).  However, open() still doesn't seem to
  20. :return to enter the read loop.
  21.  
  22. For open on a named pipe to return, there must be both a reader
  23. and a writer.
  24.  
  25. --tom
  26. -- 
  27.     Tom Christiansen      tchrist@convex.com      convex!tchrist
  28.  
  29. This is a "feature" of dynamic scoping when used with call-by-reference.
  30. Don't do that.  :-)
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