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ibotty on Aug 11, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Next generation Unix pipe by Alex Larsson

null-terminated strings are hard to read in a shell window. and isatty(3) does not work for pagers.

content nagotiation only works with bi-directional data transfer (i.e. not with pipes).

alexlarsson on Aug 11, 2012 [–]

Thats only true if you only negotiate via data in the pipe. dtools (in the article) uses non-mandatory file locks to do the content negotiation on the pipe.

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