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in thread Prepending a string to STDERR output, and logging STDOUT & STDERR synchronously to a file

Ok so I ran an strace on the program and the last lines are 

<p>
read(5, "/fst/home/m1jas05/.openoffice/sh"..., 4096) = 45
write(1, "STDOUT: /fst/home/m1jas05/.openo"..., 53STDOUT: /fst/home/m1
+jas05/.openoffice/share/dict/ooo
) = 53
read(5, 
<p>

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so it looks like some kind of deadlock, but the child is not reading anything, only the parent is.

Man I am confused.

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