Re: [9fans] i/o on a hangup channel asymmetry

[Francisco J Ballesteros]

Bescause consumers produce pipeline results why
producers do not?

ls | wc > /tmp/nfiles

I want nfiles to be ok.

however

ls | date

should probably let ls die as soon as date completes

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> Thanks,
> Roman.
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