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From: pdl@root44.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Pipe/FIFO + NDELAY question - (nf)
Message-ID: <4091@root44.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 8-Jul-83 10:57:24 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jul  8 10:57:24 1983
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If you look in the SIII manual, it sez that writes to a pipe will always
fail if the count exceeds `a limit'.
I always interpreted that to mean that you can't write > PIPSIZ bytes
to a FIFO/pipe, (an assumption borne out by experience piping `dd's
together, as to funny behaviour with NDELAY set, I've never used NDELAY
on a pipe, and would expect funny behaviour, being as NDELAY never seems
to work with terminals anyway !

		Dave Lukes (...!vax135!ukc!root44!pdl)