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<H2><A NAME="SECTION00735000000000000000">6.3.5 The Infamous SIGPIPE Signal</A></H2>
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On a last note, pipes must have a reader and a writer. If a process tries to
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write to a pipe that has no reader, it will be sent the SIGPIPE signal from
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the kernel. This is imperative when more than two processes are involved in
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