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| author | Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> | 2016-04-02 22:52:11 +0300 |
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| committer | Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> | 2016-04-04 06:37:44 +0300 |
| commit | b332053a160357e6c30c22f9ca90af9129e4550b (patch) | |
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Document about using closed end of two-way pipes.
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diff --git a/doc/gawk.texi b/doc/gawk.texi index 59e06a08..4b0ea40c 100644 --- a/doc/gawk.texi +++ b/doc/gawk.texi @@ -27507,6 +27507,11 @@ As a side note, the assignment @samp{LC_ALL=C} in the @command{sort} command ensures traditional Unix (ASCII) sorting from @command{sort}. This is not strictly necessary here, but it's good to know how to do this. +Be careful when closing the @code{"from"} end of a two-way pipe; in this +case @command{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 @code{"to"} end.) + @cindex @command{gawk}, @code{PROCINFO} array in @cindex @code{PROCINFO} array, and communications via ptys You may also use pseudo-ttys (ptys) for |