On Mon, 9 Jun 1997, Tim O'Brien wrote:
> Ok, I finally have to break down and ask a potential dumb question: What
> the heck is a 'broken pipe'? I get these from time to time on my Debian box.
A pipe is when the standard output of one program is fed to the standard
input of another. These types of programs are commonly called "filters".
Even DOS has them.
For example,
ps -auwx | grep ping
will show the ping processes running. The "|" is the "pipe" character.
A broken pipe is when one of the programs terminates abnormally (either
one, I think). In a normal situation the second program would detect an
"EOF" from the first and everything closes cleanly.
...RickM...
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