Re: pipe read returning EAGAIN

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Tue, Feb 09, 2016 at 08:19:13PM +0000, Michael van Elst wrote:
> bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost (Manuel Bouyer) writes:
> 
> >It does retry because the same code is used after the pipe has been closed
> >(the child exited or has been killed) in this case it's OK to wait for
> >data or EOF which will happen very soon.
> 
> Shouldn't it turn on blocking mode on the filedescriptor if it intends
> to wait ?

it should probably but I don't know why the code is this way. Maybe there
are systems where turning off O_NONBLOCK doens't work ...

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
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