Re: weird pipe behaviour!
Hamish Moffatt writes:
> mkfifo wow
> cat < wow &
> cat < wow &
> echo hi there > wow
odd. in rc, this works, but i only see 'hi there' once.
*thinks*
No, i guess that's the Right Thing(TM). Or is it? Nah, i'm pretty sure
it is. One process has to do the read first, which is going to set the
EOF flag on the file descriptor. In any event, i'm not sure what's
wrong with *your* shell (rc wins again! neener neener! :-))... sorry.
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