On Mar 14, 2014, at 11:03 AM, Kirill Müller
wrote:
> On 03/14/2014 03:54 PM, Simon Urbanek wrote:
>> As far as R is concerned, the connection is open. In addition, pipes exist
>> even without the process - you can close one end of a pipe and it will still
>> exist (that’s what makes pipes usef
On 03/14/2014 03:54 PM, Simon Urbanek wrote:
As far as R is concerned, the connection is open. In addition, pipes exist even
without the process - you can close one end of a pipe and it will still exist
(that’s what makes pipes useful, actually, because you can choose to close
arbitrary combin
On Mar 14, 2014, at 8:09 AM, Kirill Müller
wrote:
> Hi
>
> Is there a way to detect that the process that corresponds to a pipe has
> ended? On my system (Ubuntu 13.04), I see
>
> > p <- pipe("true", "w"); Sys.sleep(1); system("ps -elf | grep true | grep -v
> > grep"); isOpen(p)
> [1] TRUE
>
