From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: bugzilla-daemon-590EEB7GvNiWaY/ihj7yzEB+6BGkLq7r@public.gmane.org Subject: [Bug 95331] fcntl.2 + sigaction.2 + signal.7 need further information about use of a SA_SIGINFO signal handler that uses si->si_fd Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2015 12:37:32 +0000 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-man-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: linux-man-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-man@vger.kernel.org https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=95331 --- Comment #5 from Jason Vas Dias --- One cannot use poll() or select() either in this case, either, because there seems to be no way of polling for POLLOUT without being flooded with revents==POLLOUT|POLLERR poll() returns, regardless of a timeout parameter of -1 (another undocumented fact about poll(2) ) . So is it true that Linux really provides no way of waiting for output to become possible on a PIPE file descriptor after a SIGPIPE has been received on it (the last reader has closed its input pipe to our output pipe) , so we want to wait for a new reader to open an input pipe? I thought that was what SIGIO was meant to be for ? Or is there some other mechanism ? Yes, I know, I should be using UNIX sockets and accept(), but the real application is required to use PIPEs, and the documentation suggests it should be possible to wait for an event to be generated by the kernel when a reader connects a new input FD to our output pipe. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching the assignee of the bug. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html