[gentoo-user] how does a pipe work? Which process wait for which one, or they don't actually wait each other?

2006-06-14 Thread 张韡武
Hello. This might be OT but I am pretty interested in this and being unlucky not able to find a real in-depth explanation of pipe on the Internet. How does pipe actually work? I mean, when there is a pipe like this: $ appA | appB What happen if appA produced output when appB is still busy

Re: [gentoo-user] how does a pipe work? Which process wait for which one, or they don't actually wait each other?

2006-06-14 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 14 June 2006 14:12, 张韡武 wrote: Hello. This might be OT but I am pretty interested in this and being unlucky not able to find a real in-depth explanation of pipe on the Internet. How does pipe actually work? I mean, when there is a pipe like this: $ appA | appB What happen if appA

Re: [gentoo-user] how does a pipe work? Which process wait for which one, or they don't actually wait each other?

2006-06-14 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 14 June 2006 08:12, 张韡武 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] how does a pipe work? Which process wait for which one, or they don't actually wait each other?': How does pipe actually work? I mean, when there is a pipe like this: $ appA | appB What happen if appA produced