Re: fflush & close behavior not well-defined

[Chet Ramey]

On 10/1/20 10:10 AM, arnold@skeeve.com wrote:
> I have no explanation. Maybe Chet does.

I'm not familiar enough with the gawk semantics to understand which child
processes are run by gawk directly and which are run by the shell. It's not
clear exactly which writer process is getting the SIGPIPE.

Does gawk read the output from `cat' or just send it straight to stdout?
And does it wait for the pipeline to terminate before running the close?

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