[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I've been looking at this small program which performs an "ls | wc",
> trying to work out how the blocking semantics works.
>
> I understand that fork() has resulted in two identical processes being
> run simultaneously but I can't work out how the parent process is
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED][SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, October 09, 1998 12:02 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: pipe blocking semantics
I've been looking at this small program which performs an "ls | wc",
trying to work out how the blocking semantics works.
I understand
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> After the fork(), are there two separate copies of pfd[] ?
Yes. Fork duplicates the entire process, including any open
filedescriptors.
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Henrik Nordström
