[CentOS] Pipes (fifos) not working in concurrently

[Bart Schaefer]

On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 6:34 PM, Bart Schaefer
<barton.schaefer at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Next you create wget #2, which (because it was forked from the parent
> shell) shares all the file descriptors that the shell had open to wget
> #1, e.g., including the input to the fifo.  Repeat for all the rest of
> the wget.  By the time you have created the last one, each of them has
> a set of descriptors shared with every other that was created ahead of
> them.
>
> Thus, even though you write to the fifo for wget #2 and close it from
> the parent shell, it doesn't actually see EOF and begin processing the
> input until the corresponding descriptor shared by wget #1 is closed
> when wget #1 exits.

I wrote that backwards.  Actually I think the *last* one (#20) exits
first, and then #19, and so on down to #1 ... but the descriptor
management issue is the same.