Hi Laurent,
I noticed the other day that if I did a (rtl 3.0 pre6d)
ioctl(fifo_fd, FIONREAD, unread);
it would work okay until I emptied the fifo but after that (and after
some more data accumulated in the fifo), it would continue to return 0.
I haven't looked through the fifo code but it sounds similar to what you
are experiencing with RAT.
cheers,
Stuart Warren
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> Hello,
>
> I've found a "undocumented feature" in the RTAI fifos (new fifos (both version 0.9a
>and 1.5)). We are unable to perform a select system call from a user-space program
>(actually this is a TCL script that use the filevent TCL feature, but if you look
> through strace you can actually see that this is a call to select with a
>filedescriptor corresponding to the FIFO). Although the real-time process perform a
>write on the FIFO, the user-space process doesn't wake-up. We observed that it sleeps
>on the select
> system call.
>
> The only work-around we had, is to have a separate user-space process that does a
>blocking read on the RT-FIFO and then we something is written, reads the RT-FIFO and
>rewrite the information on named pipe on which the script is now sleeping. This works
> but, it's not very elegant and it wastes CPU power.
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Laurent Kersten
>
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