Re: lib/55836: popen(3)'s type "r+" doesn't work correctly

[Wolfgang Solfrank <Wolfgang%Solfrank.net@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR lib/55836; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Wolfgang Solfrank <Wolfgang%Solfrank.net@localhost>
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Subject: Re: lib/55836: popen(3)'s type "r+" doesn't work correctly
Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2020 16:55:44 +0100

 Hi,
 
 > While I was playing with read/write pipes with popen(command, "r+") I
 > realized that this doesn't work as expected.  The plus triggers creating
 > the pipe object with socketpair(2) instead of pipe2(2) in
 > src/lib/libc/gen/popen.c, but socketpair doesn't seem to work properly.
 
 This seems to be a problem with your expectations.  The "r+" tells
 popen to open the pipe "for reading and writing" (see popen(3)).
 I.e. with your test program, the forked "cat" gets its stdin *and*
 stdout connected to the one end of the socketpair.  So the cat
 doesn't read the output from the ls command, but sits there waiting
 for your program to write something into fp.
 
 So this works exactly as designed.
 
 Ciao,
 Wolfgang
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