On Fri April 11 2008 8:02:07 am Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote: > 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).
Hrm, can you define what OSs you mean when you say "Unix"? _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
