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In article <92033@bu.edu> tesco@bumetb.bu.edu (Dances With Babes) writes:
>
> mknod testpipe p
> cat testpipe &
> ls > testpipe
> The "cat" process ends after the ls is sent to the screen.

This is the way named pipes have worked since The Dawn of Time.  If you
want to have multiple processes write to the pipe, you need the reader
to reopen it.  In the shell, you could do something like this:

(while :;do cat testpipe;done)&

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