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stevens all the way,

Or another though,

Is there anyway to send a pointer across or address of the pointer and have the reading end set its structures pointer to the one address coming into the pipe?

Guys is there anyway to do it?

I need atleat double that of MAXPATHLEN.

thanks,
Steven

Its blocked because of I/0

answered my own question.

Use poll() or select(), incase anyone ever searches this thread.

Steven

Hey thanks that was a great link, lots of good info for the future.

But anyway, im using pipe and my initial idea is working great except one flaw.

The parent process will sit on a read until...

I know how to read and write if i have a forked process with only one child. However what is involved with reading and writing with many forked processes. Say one parent that forks 5 children, and...