[comp.unix.programmer] popen understood -- thanks

svec5@menudo.uh.edu (T.C. Zhao) (06/21/91)

Thanks to:

J. Lee         <jlee@sobeco.com>
Ron Quinn      <rjq@mpccl.ksu.edu>
Barry Margolin <barmar@Think.COM>
Dave Eisen     <dkeisen@leland.stanford.edu>

broken pipe is supposed to terminate the program if signal
SIGPIPE is not caught or ignored. For my aplication, a
signal(SIGPIPE,SIG_IGN) with error checks on the returns of i/o 
operation works fine.