Subject: dlopen() on a fifo
To: None <tech-misc@NetBSD.org>
From: Kirk Russell <kirk@ba23.org>
List: tech-misc
Date: 05/11/2006 09:56:51 
Hello,

I am using NetBSD 3.0.  I found that dlopen() will block if the given
path is a fifo:

	$ mkfifo -m a+wrx afifo
	$ ksh -c "LD_PRELOAD=./afifo /usr/bin/true"
	[... blocked ...]

Is this expected behaviour?  Just curious :-)

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Kirk Russell            <kirk@ba23.org>            http://www.ba23.org/
Bridlewood Software Testers Guild                  Ottawa Ontario Canada