Unix programming question -resolved

Jerry Feldman gaf at blu.org
Wed May 5 23:26:20 EDT 1999


Richard Stevens writes very good referenace books. 

On 5 May 99, at 17:30, Jerry A Clabaugh <JerryC at world.std.com> wrote:

> Yes, I was confused about fd's versus streams, thanks.
> 
> Actually, I found everything I needed in the place I should have 
> looked in the first place -' Advanced Programming in the UNIX
> Environment', W. Richard Stevens.  I discovered that what I
> was trying to do is called a 'coprocess', and that using
> pipes is defeated by buffering problems, and that the solution
> is to use pseudo-terminals.  (In case anyone wanted to know)
> 
> But this book has quite a lot of information I couldn't find
> anywhere else.
> 


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