basic C question

[Henry Spencer]

On Tue, 13 Jul 2004, Bob Findlay wrote:
> Unfortunately,  when you open a fifo O_RDONLY and the other end isn't yet 
> opened for writing the open() call blocks.      This little tidbit makes a 
> mess of any select() logic one wants to initialize around that file 
> descriptor.

I believe you can get around that with O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK, although I can't
say I've tried it lately...  See the fifo(4) manpage.

                                                          Henry Spencer
                                                       henry-lqW1N6Cllo0sV2N9l4h3zg at public.gmane.org

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