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authorArnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>2016-04-06 06:00:28 +0300
committerArnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>2016-04-06 06:00:28 +0300
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@@ -19938,6 +19938,21 @@ the coprocess and exits.
ensures traditional Unix (ASCII) sorting from 'sort'. This is not
strictly necessary here, but it's good to know how to do this.
+ Be careful when closing the '"from"' end of a two-way pipe; in this
+case 'gawk' waits for the child process to exit, which may cause your
+program to hang. (Thus, this particular feature is of much less use in
+practice than being able to close the '"to"' end.)
+
+ CAUTION: Normally, it is a fatal error to write to the '"to"' end
+ of a two-way pipe which has been closed, and it is also a fatal
+ error to read from the '"from"' end of a two-way pipe that has been
+ closed.
+
+ You may set 'PROCINFO["COMMAND", "NONFATAL"]' to make such
+ operations become nonfatal, in which case you then need to check
+ 'ERRNO' after each 'print', 'printf', or 'getline'. *Note
+ Nonfatal::, for more information.
+
You may also use pseudo-ttys (ptys) for two-way communication instead
of pipes, if your system supports them. This is done on a per-command
basis, by setting a special element in the 'PROCINFO' array (*note
@@ -33738,7 +33753,7 @@ Index
* gawk, predefined variables and: Built-in Variables. (line 14)
* gawk, PROCINFO array in: Auto-set. (line 148)
* gawk, PROCINFO array in <1>: Time Functions. (line 47)
-* gawk, PROCINFO array in <2>: Two-way I/O. (line 99)
+* gawk, PROCINFO array in <2>: Two-way I/O. (line 114)
* gawk, regexp constants and: Using Constant Regexps.
(line 28)
* gawk, regular expressions, case sensitivity: Case-sensitivity.
@@ -34516,7 +34531,7 @@ Index
* PROCINFO array: Auto-set. (line 148)
* PROCINFO array <1>: Time Functions. (line 47)
* PROCINFO array <2>: Passwd Functions. (line 6)
-* PROCINFO array, and communications via ptys: Two-way I/O. (line 99)
+* PROCINFO array, and communications via ptys: Two-way I/O. (line 114)
* PROCINFO array, and group membership: Group Functions. (line 6)
* PROCINFO array, and user and group ID numbers: Id Program. (line 15)
* PROCINFO array, testing the field splitting: Passwd Functions.
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