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Date:      Sun, 3 Dec 2000 01:28:41 -0600
From:      "G. Adam Stanislav" <adam@whizkidtech.net>
To:        Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>
Cc:        Charlie & <root@int80h.org>, hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: pipe
Message-ID:  <20001203012841.B228@whizkidtech.net>
In-Reply-To: <3A292D98.E655D755@softweyr.com>; from wes@softweyr.com on Sat, Dec 02, 2000 at 10:12:56AM -0700
References:  <20001202085127.A301@int80h.org> <3A292D98.E655D755@softweyr.com>

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On Sat, Dec 02, 2000 at 10:12:56AM -0700, Wes Peters wrote:
>Yes, you can read from your own pipe, and yes the buffering availabe in
>the pipe is limited.  IIRC, the pipe size is 8K.

Thank you. In that case I'll be better off using child processes for
what I am working on. But I will use pipes from within a process
whenever I know that my data will not grow larger than 8K.

Adam

-- 
A billion dollars in the bank,
without the experience of carefreeness and charity,
is a state of poverty.
		-- Deepak Chopra


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