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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message