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| author | Theo de Raadt <deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2000-12-10 02:34:26 +0000 |
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| committer | Theo de Raadt <deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2000-12-10 02:34:26 +0000 |
| commit | 6c56487b9b544b61cbbcf2ca731c72008e8fb3b3 (patch) | |
| tree | 5c7865c5e1b4feb0ab350e6d5241b84144ce999e /lib/libc/sys | |
| parent | 07ccd16941578ad942c9be91f965177d7ed1ec04 (diff) | |
document that pipe is actually bidirectional, but that people should avoid use of such in portable code; akr@m17n.org
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libc/sys')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/libc/sys/pipe.2 | 7 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/sys/pipe.2 b/lib/libc/sys/pipe.2 index 957f9bcf215..5cae0c65eee 100644 --- a/lib/libc/sys/pipe.2 +++ b/lib/libc/sys/pipe.2 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: pipe.2,v 1.8 2000/10/18 05:12:10 aaron Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: pipe.2,v 1.9 2000/12/10 02:34:25 deraadt Exp $ .\" $NetBSD: pipe.2,v 1.6 1995/02/27 12:35:27 cgd Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1991, 1993 @@ -103,6 +103,11 @@ The .Fn pipe function conforms to .St -p1003.1-88 . +.Pp +As an extension, the pipe provided is actually capable of moving +data bidirectionally. +However, this is non-standard behaviour which should not be relied on, +for reasons of portability. .Sh HISTORY A .Fn pipe |