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“it just cannot read any more from the pipe” — that's true here, but it wouldn't be the case with a named pipe. With a named pipe, the reader could continue reading and would receive data if another process opens the named pipe for writing and writes to it.

Gilles 'SO- stop being evil'
– Gilles 'SO- stop being evil'

2020-09-20 17:44:10 +00:00
Commented Sep 20, 2020 at 17:44
@Gilles'SO-stopbeingevil' Agreed -- I answered the question on the basis of a shell simple anonymous pipe. I believe a construct like { echo; sleep 5; echo bar; } | cat lets all three processes inherit the pipe fd for writing.

Paul_Pedant
– Paul_Pedant

2020-09-20 17:59:30 +00:00
Commented Sep 20, 2020 at 17:59

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