Re: select() on pipe

2005-04-25 Thread Donn Cave
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Brad Murdoch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > im trying to run the select.selct() on a unix pipe, my expectation is > that it will block untill there is something there to read, then > continue. It seems to do this untill the pipe is written to once, then i > get a

select() on pipe

2005-04-25 Thread Brad Murdoch
im trying to run the select.selct() on a unix pipe, my expectation is that it will block untill there is something there to read, then continue. It seems to do this untill the pipe is written to once, then i get a busy while loop. shouldnt this stop each time, to wait for something to be writte