Re: Opening of blocking FIFOs not reliable?

[Alan Cox]

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
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