Jeff Abrahamson on Fri, 11 Apr 2003 12:12:16 -0400


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Re: [PLUG] Linux FIFOs


On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 09:17:50AM -0400, Eric Lucas wrote:
> Although I don't do it, you might benefit by writing an EOF character
> after your signature.  That would ensure the reading process would 
> stop reading.  Come to think of it, I don't know why I don't write
> an EOF in my code... hummmmmmm.

Because there is no such thing as an EOF character on unix. There is
an EOF result code. This is why getc returns an int and not a char.

-- 
 Jeff

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