Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > However, there is a fundamental problem in all this because we can't > properly signal an EOF condition. After all, we only have one file > descriptor open to the run translator, and how can we signal that there is > nothing left to read to it? When we could, I would use two pipes instead > one bidirectional, and close it. This would be enough to let the running > program know about it. But how to get the end of file signal to the foo > translator in the first place? The filter program should do it somehow. > Do we have some icky (or even proper) RPC that we can use for this? Am I > missing something obvious?
You want the "shutdown" call, which should do the right thing. _______________________________________________ Bug-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd
