Richard Oudkerk added the comment:

> I guess we'll have to write platform-dependent code and make this an
> optional feature. (Essentially, on platforms like AIX, for a
> write-pipe, connection_lost() won't be called unless you try to write
> some more bytes to it.)

If we are not capturing stdout/stderr then we could "leak" the write end of a 
pipe to the child.  When the read end becomes readable we can call the process 
protocol's connection_lost().

Or we could just call connection_lost() when reaping the pid.

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