c/unix q

[Erez D]

hello

using the usual pipe()+fork()+dup()+close() to fork a child process and
pipe data from and to it,

I  know both the child and parent must close the unused fds.

why ?
what if i don't close the unsed fds ?


thanks,
erez.
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