Ethereal-dev: [Ethereal-dev] Re: Named Pipe

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From: "John McDermott" <jjm@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2005 11:29:33 -0700
On Tue, 27 Dec 2005 11:00:09 -0700, <ethereal-dev-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: 


Is there any way to determine (without side effects) that a pipe has
been closed? Writing to the pipe will give you EPIPE (and SIGPIPE) if
it is closed, but I cannot find a way to test this without writing
anything.
You will have to test it on multiple platforms, but I think poll() finds the event POLLERR when the pipe is open for writing, POLLHUP if it is open for reading. 

--john


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