>>    I have two processes reading from the same named pipe.
>>    The output written to the pipe seems to get evenly split
>>    between the two processes.

>> More importantly, why is it an issue?

>I have two processes reading from the same pipe. I would like
>them to each be getting the same information.

Sounds like you should be writing a simple server process that
controls access to the pipe/socket/whatever and doles out the data to
client processes which talk to it.

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