Re: named pipes blocking zsh

["Tim K. (Gmane)" <tk-gmane+at@idpax.com>]

Now that I think about it, what if the pine process crashed and didn't 
have a chance to send an EOF or remove the pipe (assuming pine 
implemented the EOF)? It seems that the read with timeout in zsh should 
work, it should not just block forever even though a timeout is 
specified, but maybe it's not possible to do because it's stuck in 
open() not in a read call.

Thanks.

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>I think this qualifies as a pine bug.  Removing a named pipe will not
>by itself send an EOF to any processes that are listening on it.  The
>right way for pine to shut down the connection would be to open the fifo,
>remove the disk file, then send a final EOF by closing the descriptor.
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>Anything else is a race condition with the listening process, which may
>re-open the fifo for reading before pine has removed it.
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