On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, Marty Leisner wrote:
> It seems when you go into select on a pipe (in this case a named
> pipe), freebsd and solaris come out of select when you can write some
> data to the pipe (i.e. 512-1k). linux comes out of the select when
> the pipe is empty.
I suspect that it's so that you can guarantee an atomic
write of PIPE_BUF bytes.
Matthew.
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