Named pipe problem: is this a bug?

[Alan Schmitt <alan.schmitt@polytechnique.org>]

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Hello,

I've stumbled upon a small bug, and I wonder if it's a OS X bug (I'm  
using X.4.2), or a caml bug. The problem is the following: I create a  
named pipe, then I open it. The open system call seems to block until  
there is data in the pipe.

Here is a small program illustrating this:

let _ =
   Unix.mkfifo "pipe_test" 0o640;
   print_endline "pipe created";
   flush stdout;
   let chin = open_in "pipe_test" in
     print_endline "pipe opened";
     flush stdout

Compile it using "ocamlc unix.cma bug.ml" (the bug occurs both in  
bytecode and native code). When a.out is run, one sees:
pipe created
and the program keeps running. If one then does a
echo foo >> pipe_test
then the "pipe opened" line is shown, and the program terminates.

Is this behaviour normal?

Thanks,

Alan Schmitt

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