libpthread fifo fdlock

2014-01-26 Thread idoadm
Hi misc@, >From http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=133217901415880&w=2 "The ``sleep until we have a writer'' behaviour of an open() on a fifo does so with the file descriptor table locked, so if we are waiting for another thread to be our writer we will hang forever. Found this using zotero and fi

Re: libpthread fifo fdlock

2014-01-27 Thread idoadm
It was a peachy Sunday, Jan 26 2014, 22:05:25 when Marco Pfatschbacher wrote: > On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 03:44:14PM -0500, ido...@gmail.com wrote: > > Hi misc@, > > From http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=133217901415880&w=2 > > > > "The ``sleep until we have a writer'' behaviour of an open() on a