On 06/02/2012 02:31 PM, Michał Górny wrote: > On Sat, 2 Jun 2012 15:54:03 -0400 > Mike Frysinger <vap...@gentoo.org> wrote: > >> # @FUNCTION: redirect_alloc_fd >> # @USAGE: <var> <file> [redirection] >> # @DESCRIPTION: > > (...and a lot of code) > > I may be wrong but wouldn't it be simpler to just stick with a named > pipe here? Well, at first glance you wouldn't be able to read exactly > one result at a time but is it actually useful?
I'm pretty sure that the pipe has remain constantly open in read mode (which can only be done by assigning it a file descriptor). Otherwise, there's a race condition that can occur, where a write is lost because it's written just before the reader closes the pipe. -- Thanks, Zac
