[TUHS] EOF on pipes?

[Dave Horsfall]

On Tue, 27 Feb 2018, Rudi Blom wrote:

> By using pipe() you create a FIFO pipe with certain limitations 
> (including 5120 write limit). When you open the streams device twice and 
> ioctl() two file descriptors together you have more flexibility.

There's always been a limit on the write until the reader got around to 
it; that's why you had to take care to avoid deadlocks.

Heck, I fell into a deadlock the other day with Perl; I thought that "say 
<$reader_pipe>" (to echo whatever was read) as a neat shortcut would 
work...  It deadlocked, because "<>" was evaluated in list context 
(because of "say") and hence waited for the EOF that would never arrive so 
that I could close the writer end.

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