On Sun, 18 Sep 2011 13:25:26 +0200 Ronald Klop wrote: RK> It is a while since I programmed C, but why will writing 0 bytes give RK> the reader an end-of-file? Shouldn't the fd be closed to indicate RK> end-of-file?
AFAIR, this trick with writing 0 to emulate EOF because we can't close the fd -- we still want to read from it. Poor shutdown(2) for non-socket :-). Colin might tell more... -- Mikolaj Golub _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
