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Chris January wrote:
 
> Alternatively, do it the other way round, with the child occasionally
> writing to the pipe and the parent draining it. The child will get
> SIGPIPE when the parent dies.

This sounds great! I have already a pipe between parent and child processes
for other purposes and only need to setup a signal handler for SIGPIPE.

Thanks
Michael
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