Re: [PLUG] Linux FIFOs

[gabriel rosenkoetter <gr@eclipsed.net>]

On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 04:43:14PM -0400, Michael C. Toren wrote:
> That's how FIFO's operate.  Opening a FIFO for read access will block
> until the same FIFO is also opened for write access, and opening a FIFO
> for write access will block until the same FIFO is also opened for read
> access.  After both sides have been successfully opened, if the writer
> closes his side the reader will detect an EOF condition on subsequent
> reads.

Bah. Named pipe, FIFO. I'm so confused on Fridays.

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gabriel rosenkoetter
gr@eclipsed.net

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