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Subject: Re: [shell-discuss] "atomic" writes to a pipe ?
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> Hi!
> 
> ----
> 
> Is there a way that multiple proceses can write to the same pipe fd but
> keep their writes "atomic" (regardless of the size, e.g. the writes may
> be 1 byte or 300GB), e.g. that the data (or better "record") being
> written appears in one piece ?
> 
> Bye,
> Roland
> 

The standard is clear that only writes of PIPE_BUF or less are guaranteed
to be atomic.  

David Korn
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