On 04/06/13 15:28, Erez D wrote: > thanks, > > so i guess if i use unidirectional connection, and the reader does not > expect to get an EOF() > thank i'm safe. > Why are you so keen on doing it wrong?
No, you are not safe. If the child process dies because of a segmentation fault (or whatever), the parent will notice this through the EOF received (I am assuming here, since you couldn't be bothered with closing a file descriptor, that you did not install a SIGCHLD handler to monitor for this possibility). This means that should one process die unexpectedly, the other will hang forever. Best practices are there for a reason, despite what others here might have you think. Shachar
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