Re: A fifo and signal bug

H.J. Lu (hjl@lucon.org)
Fri, 20 Nov 1998 11:21:56 -0800 (PST)

>
>
>
> On Fri, 20 Nov 1998, H.J. Lu wrote:
> >
> > The POSIX testsuite found another Linux kernel bug. This time is the
> > interaction between fifo open and signal:
>
> Umm, doesn't happen for me.
>
> > # gcc fifo.c
> > # a.out 1
> > # a.out
> > parent: open: Device not configured
>
> [torvalds@penguin torvalds]$ gcc fifo.c
> [torvalds@penguin torvalds]$ ./a.out 1
> [torvalds@penguin torvalds]$ ./a.out
> [torvalds@penguin torvalds]$
>
> which is apparently the right result.
>
> Maybe it's a glibc bug.
>

The testcase has just straight system calls. I don't think
glibc is involved here. It failed with libc 5.4.46, glibc
2.0 and glibc 2.1 on linux 2.1.129.

Can you send me

# strace a.out

-- 
H.J. Lu (hjl@gnu.org)


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