On Apr 11, 2008, at 8:12 , John Goerzen wrote:
OK, I have referred to fifo(7) regarding this point. It seems I
may need a
loop trying over and over to open the FIFO in write mode. It also
appears
that ReadWriteMode appearing to work is Linux-specific, and this
behavior is
left undefined in POSIX.
Undefined in POSIX, normal for Unix (and Linux originally promised
only POSIX semantics but was rejiggered some years back to behave
like Unix in this regard, because Unix programs rely on these
semantics and therefore failed on Linux).
--
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