On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 12:44:33AM +0400, Andrey A. Chernov wrote:
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>
> Please consider that we talk not about reads but about select. 'Select' is
> used to indicate that data is available while 'read' used to read it, they
> are two different things and behaviour of one thing not related to other.
> Currently select indicates that data is available when it really isn't. I
> don't ask to fix current read implementation, but select is just unusable
> for FIFOs in its current form.
I wouldn't say 'unusable'. It needs a work around.
It is broken, in that selecting for readability on a pipe requires you
to open that writing fd on it *everytime*.
Greetz, Peter
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