From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2005-09-17T06:48:47+09:00
Subject: Re: sending EOF portably

On 9/16/05, Ara.T.Howard <Ara.T.Howard@noaa.gov> wrote:
> any way to send EOF down a pipe/io object in a portable fashion?  i want to
> signal EOF to another process w/o closing/reopen.

Design your own?

EOF as a marker character is a convention on Unix (usually Ctrl-D, but
mostly interpreted by the shells, etc.) and is a convention on Win32
when the file is opened in ASCII mode (e.g., 'w', not 'wb').

Better to make it so that you've got an explicit EOF marker yourself.

-austin
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