From: marko@pacujo.nu (Marko Rauhamaa)
To: tcon@Physics.usyd.edu.au
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Need blocking /dev/null
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 08:04:46 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011030160446.895395693@elektro.pacujo.nu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.96.1011030180024.12360A-100000@suphys.physics.usyd.edu.au> (message from Tim Connors on Tue, 30 Oct 2001 18:02:07 +1100 (EST))
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.96.1011030180024.12360A-100000@suphys.physics.usyd.edu.au>
> How bout just `mkfifo /tmp/blockme`
> and read on /tmp/blockme - just don't write to it!
I don't think that will work, not the same way anyway. The problem is it
will block on open(2) and will never get to read(2).
Marko
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-10-30 16:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-10-29 21:07 Marko Rauhamaa
2001-10-29 21:24 ` Alan Cox
2001-10-30 3:52 ` Marko Rauhamaa
2001-10-30 7:02 ` Tim Connors
2001-10-30 16:04 ` Marko Rauhamaa [this message]
2001-10-31 0:51 ` Riley Williams
2001-10-31 9:23 ` Ville Herva
2001-10-31 23:13 ` Riley Williams
2001-11-01 0:11 ` Doug McNaught
2001-11-01 7:27 ` Ville Herva
2001-11-01 7:52 ` Abramo Bagnara
2001-11-01 23:51 ` Riley Williams
2001-11-02 19:53 ` Ville Herva
2001-11-02 20:04 ` John Adams
2001-11-02 20:32 ` Ville Herva
2001-11-02 20:46 ` Tim Walberg
2001-11-05 22:08 ` Andreas Schwab
2001-11-01 7:24 ` Ville Herva
2001-10-29 21:45 ` Hugh Dickins
2001-10-29 23:03 ` elko
2001-10-29 23:12 ` Mike Fedyk
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