Antoine Pelisse <[email protected]> writes:
> I'm not sure about the deadlock though. Both read and write will wait
> for each other to start operating on the fifo.
It is true only if the fifo already exists. That is, if you did
this:
a lot of &&
commands &&
before &&
mkfifo fifo &&
feed >fifo &
git diff -Ofifo
the consumer may attempt to open and read fifo when the other
process is still running a lot of commands, no?
>
> You can probably fix the &&-chain by doing something like:
>
> mkfifo order_fifo && {
> cat order_file_$i >order_fifo &
> git diff -O order_fifo --name-only HEAD^..HEAD >actual
> } && ...
>
> Also, "rm -f order_fifo" should probably be done in test_when_finished
> rather than at the beginning of the test.
>
> Antoine,
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