in reply to Detecting the close() of named pipes

On which side of the pipe did you register a $SIG{PIPE} handler?

If the reader closes the pipe, the writer to a pipe gets a SIGPIPE; if the writer closes it, the reader gets EOF.

--shmem

_($_=" "x(1<<5)."?\n".q·/)Oo.  G°\        /
                              /\_¯/(q    /
----------------------------  \__(m.====·.(_("always off the crowd"))."·
");sub _{s./.($e="'Itrs `mnsgdq Gdbj O`qkdq")=~y/"-y/#-z/;$e.e && print}

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Re^2: Detecting the close() of named pipes
by betterworld (Curate) on Aug 23, 2006 at 18:53 UTC
    the writer to a pipe gets a SIGPIPE
    Or, if SIGPIPE is ignored, the writer gets an EPIPE error.