How to send EOF to the popen(3) pipe?

[Yuri]

On 01/18/2016 01:29, Malcolm Matalka wrote:
> The manpage claims that pclose waits for the process to finish and
> returns its exit code, is this not true?

This is true, but EOF is different. In the case of the network 
connection, one can send EOF (call shutdown(2)), and then keep reading 
from the socket. With popen(3) this isn't possible. pclose(3) just 
closes and finishes the pipe.

Yuri