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Re:How to write to stderr so people will like you by ars on Sunday April 18, 2010 @01:12PM (#1275104)
Sigh.

And the difference between "stop processing" and letting the IO block is what?

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Re:How to write to stderr so people will like you by gte910h on Sunday April 18, 2010 @01:18PM (#1275114)
You can do other things....like say, print out on stderr that there is a problem after a certain timeout, email technical support, or restart the second program.

If you use blocking IO, you just silently fail.

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