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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!ogicse!pdxgate!newsgate.cs.pdx.edu!walt.ee.pdx.edu!ursula.ee.pdx.edu!eric
  2. From: eric@ursula.ee.pdx.edu (FurryLogic)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
  4. Subject: How to forcefully close pipe
  5. Message-ID: <1k564rINN276@walt.ee.pdx.edu>
  6. Date: 27 Jan 93 05:21:31 GMT
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  12.   I want to be able to forcefully terminate a pipe opened by doing
  13. an open( FD, "command |" ). A close() and subsequent open() on the
  14. same desc will wait for the command to terminate. Any easy way sort
  15. of killing the processes? Thanx.
  16.  
  17. -e.b.
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  19. --
  20.   Eric Berggren             |  "We are Microsoft. UNIX is irrelevant.
  21.   Computer Action Team      |    OS/2 is irrelevant. Openness is futile.
  22.   eric@ee.pdx.edu           |    Prepare to be assimilated." by prs@turing.org
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