Who should close the file descriptor?

[David Conrad]

In article <2171 at cs.rit.edu> dxl2585 at cs.rit.edu (Derek X Lee-Wo) writes:
>In article <27C4E07F.6689 at maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca> ce3wa3bh at maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Eric Ho) writes:
>>In my progam, two process are spawned, what this two processes doing is
>>the parent process write a message to the pipe, and the child process
>>read the message from the pipe.  After the parent process finished writting,
>>should I close the pipe write end file descriptor immediately, or leave this
>>to the child.
>
>When the child process is spawned, it inherits an identical set of file
>descriptors as the parent. 
>
>At that point, the child should immediately close the write file descriptor to
>the pipe and the parent should close its read file descriptor to the pipe. 
>
>[etc.]

What the SHPX does any of this have to do with C?
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David R. Conrad
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