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Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 01:12:54 +0200
From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: Hang opening a pipe written to by a child, with SIGCHLD
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On 04/11, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
>
> Or may be you can "fix" this script, just add "exec < $PIPE"
> before the main "while true" loop.

Cough, no ;) this can equally race with the exiting child.

Oleg.