the part of its behavior i considered a misbehavior is that the shell writing to the FIFO exits. but as you say, writing to the pipe with "/bin/echo" makes the shell not to exit. that made me think... so i now wonder why the shell writing to the FIFO exits. if it is not a bug, i would like to know why exits. thanks.
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