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Subject: Re: Opening of blocking FIFOs not reliable?
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Teemu Koponen <tkoponen@iki.fi>
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Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2005 01:49:24 +0100
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On Gwe, 2005-08-12 at 20:18 -0700, Teemu Koponen wrote: 
> the reader gets scheduled. Shouldn't the writer's open() block until 
> the reader's open() is done?

Not neccessarily - but you are correct that it should lead to the
readers open completing and then EOFs being returned. Do you have a test
case for the problem?

Alan