From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
To: John Wenker <jjw@pt.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: PROBLEM: fstat(2) returns st_size==0 for non-empty FIFO.
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 11:24:15 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jehc8o9ww0.fsf@sykes.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <OFA045C5CB.E26ECC40-ON882574BF.007A7015-882574BF.007ED085@pt.com> (John Wenker's message of "Tue, 9 Sep 2008 16:05:06 -0700")
John Wenker <jjw@pt.com> writes:
> [1.] One line summary of the problem:
> fstat(2) returns st_size == 0 for a FIFO that is known to have data in it.
st_size has no meaning except for regular files and symlinks.
Andreas.
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-09 23:05 John Wenker
2008-09-10 9:19 ` Alejandro Riveira Fernández
2008-09-10 9:24 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
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