From: Richard Jones <rich@annexia.org>
To: Alan Schmitt <alan.schmitt@polytechnique.org>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Named pipe problem: is this a bug?
Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2005 16:55:59 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050801155557.GA4430@furbychan.cocan.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <F0577640-623F-4147-9745-300F4303D3E6@polytechnique.org>
This is documented behaviour. You can't open a FIFO in read mode
until a writer has opened the FIFO - instead the open(2) syscall will
block. You can pass the O_NONBLOCK flag to open, in which case the
open call will not block. Or you can open for read and write (because
you yourself are then supplying a writer).
Some more details here:
http://nixdoc.net/man-pages/Linux/man4/fifo.4.html
Rich.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-08-01 15:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-08-01 15:03 Alan Schmitt
2005-08-01 15:41 ` [Caml-list] " Virgile Prevosto
2005-08-01 15:42 ` Damien Bobillot
2005-08-01 15:55 ` Richard Jones [this message]
2005-08-02 7:59 ` Alan Schmitt
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