Closed end of a pipe

[Lazar Fleysher <fleysher@chudo.lanl.gov>]

Hello evebody,

I have a general C/Unix question.

Is it possible for a writer to find out the state (opened/closed) of the
other end of a pipe without writting to the pipe? 


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