> > On 2017/08/11 20:30, Kurt Van Dijck <dev.k...@vandijck-laurijssen.be> wrote: > > Even more nitpicking: > > mkfifo testfifo > > echo hello world > testfifo > > ... wait ... > > cat testfifo > > now echo has completed. > > This has nothing to do with buffering or writes, because a write > hasn't happened at this point. It doesn't block at write(), it blocks > at open(). It blocks until the "connection" has been established. > After that, the usual pipe buffering applies, and writes do NOT block > (until the pipe buffer is full).
indeed, I jumped to conclusion too soon. I had problems once with fifo's, during the setup. That's why I mentioned it here... Kind regards, Kurt _______________________________________________ mpd-devel mailing list mpd-devel@musicpd.org http://mailman.blarg.de/listinfo/mpd-devel
