Re: Guile-user Digest, Vol 53, Issue 14

[Daniel Llorens del Río]

On 26 Apr, 2007, at 18:01, address@hidden wrote:

> Doesn't `OPEN_BOTH' do what you want?  However, the manual reads:
>
>    Care should be taken with `OPEN_BOTH', a deadlock will occur if
>    both parent and child are writing, and waiting until the write
>    completes before doing any reading.  Each direction has `PIPE_BUF'
>    bytes of buffering (*note Ports and File Descriptors::), which
>    will be enough for small writes, but not for say putting a big
>    file through a filter.
>
> A socket pair might be suitable, too.

The problem with the result of open-input-output-pipe is that it is  
not possible to close one end and leave the other open. (Or is it??)