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

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