Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 22:57:16 +1100 (EST) From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: Alfred Perlstein <alfred@FreeBSD.org> Cc: <cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org>, <cvs-all@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/fs/fifofs fifo_vnops.c Message-ID: <20011213224148.M469-100000@gamplex.bde.org> In-Reply-To: <20011212125324.R92148@elvis.mu.org>
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On Wed, 12 Dec 2001, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> * Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> [011212 06:13] wrote:
> > On Wed, 12 Dec 2001, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> >
> > > alfred 2001/12/12 01:35:33 PST
> > >
> > > Modified files:
> > > sys/fs/fifofs fifo_vnops.c
> > > Log:
> > > Fix select on named pipes without a reader.
^^^^^^ ITYM "writer"
> > >
> > > PR: kern/19871
> > > MFC after: 1 month
> >
> > No, it will be backed out. I believe other systems implement this by
> > making the semantics of select() incompatible with read(). They don't
> > just break read().
>
> Could you be more clear on how this breaks read(2)?
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