> POSIX appears to leave it "implementation-defined" provided I > interpret this correctly, of course. So wouldn't it be great to make > one of the current results a reliable feature?
Given that 99.99% of programs don't appear to care and you materially slow down a critical path for every read and write I'm skeptical. Teaching the pipe code specifically to behave more nicely in this case might be worthwhile (and as it happens with sockets in the same case you can use shutdown() before close to get your preferred behaviour) Alan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
