On Tue, Feb 09, 2016 at 08:19:13PM +0000, Michael van Elst wrote:
> bou...@antioche.eu.org (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 <bou...@antioche.eu.org>
NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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