Re: Question regarding /proc/<pid>/fd and pipes

[Bodo Eggert <7eggert@gmx.de>]

On Wed, 8 Feb 2006, John Schmerge wrote:

> Thanks for the answer... I've got one more question: will the symlinks
> to the pipe be the same for both the read and write ends in all
> processes sharing the pipe?

It seems like yes. You can find it out by sinply trying it out.

> I've got some sort of funky race condition occurring between the read
> from the pipe and the exiting of the process on the write-end of the pipe...
> The read-process is supposed to exit after the write-process finishes
> (and does in about 1/2 the time), but I think I'm seeing the read-process
> blocked by something even after the write-process completes... Both top
> and ps give no indication that the read-process is blocked on a read(2).
> I've got some digging to do, but I'm thinking that this might actually be
> a kernel bug.

Do you close() the writing end in the process that's supposed to read?
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