This is the nice trick. It works! Thank you so much. Jian
-----Original Message----- From: uclibc-boun...@uclibc.org [mailto:uclibc-boun...@uclibc.org] On Behalf Of Rich Felker Sent: Thursday, June 02, 2011 4:44 PM To: uclibc@uclibc.org Subject: Re: named pipe is borken and proposed fix On Thu, Jun 02, 2011 at 02:00:41PM -0700, Jian Peng wrote: > " The generally accepted, portable way to handle sequential reads > on a FIFO is for the reader to also open the writing end of the > FIFO (and do nothing with it) for as long as it wants to read." > > It did not work. I am not sure whether it is possible to open same > FIFO, and use one as reader, and use second as writer, in same user > process. Of course it can. The easiest way to do this is open the FIFO with the O_RDWR flag. Then you will never get EOF. Rich _______________________________________________ uClibc mailing list uClibc@uclibc.org http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/uclibc _______________________________________________ uClibc mailing list uClibc@uclibc.org http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/uclibc
