On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 09:49:13PM +0200, Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote:
> 
> It seems that FreeBSD pipes will fix the asynchornous I/O bug that
> breaks the emulation of Linux JDK on the PowerPC (and it probably Opera,
> RealPlayer, and probably other things as well).

I think you've acquired Hammer and Nail Syndrome here.

Specifically, RealPlayer on PowerPC does not appear to have any problem
with pipes.  I'm running it with a hacked set of emulators/suse_* pkgs,
and what I find is that it starts up, plays a clip just fine, and then
generally segfaults afterwards.  Sometimes it also segfaults trying to
start up, but not nearly as often.  I don't believe this effect is
caused by pipe semantics.