Re: Coproc usage ... not understanding

[Linda Walsh]

Linda Walsh wrote:
>     I did think of that...but I thought when the foreground
> process closes 'input', then all of the chained utils should see 'eof', and
> should then flush their output...at least that was my belief in how they
> "should" be working...(sigh)...
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        Um...that got me to thinking..

        When you spawn off the coproc, and the parent has the I/O handles
to the child in COPROCNAME[0/1],   does the child have a copy of that as 
well?

I.e. does it retain an 'unclosed' copy of the writeable end of it's 
inputpipe?
(and same for output, but not as important...i.e. it could also read from
some handle it owns to read it's own output...(like that would useful)...).

But the 1st case is a cause for concern -- if it doesn't close out the 
writeable
end of the pipe to it's input, then even if the parent closes it's 
handles, the
child won't ever see "EOF", as it has it's own writeable-handle to it's 
input stream.

??