On Mon, 2 Apr 2007, Magnus Holmgren wrote:

> > We've been here before. If you can find a way to tell that the sender
> > has gone away without trying to read from the input file descriptor, it
> > would also solve the problem of "delay" hanging around when the other
> > end has disappeared. We had a discussion about this about a year ago (?)
> > and concluded that it was not possible.
> 
> Non-blocking read? 

No good. You don't actually want to read the input if it is there.

> Some other system call? 

Nobody came up with anything when we discussed this before.

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Philip Hazel            University of Cambridge Computing Service
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