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Re: Lost process output in pipe between Emacs and CVS


From: Ian Lance Taylor
Subject: Re: Lost process output in pipe between Emacs and CVS
Date: 24 Jul 2002 20:13:07 -0700
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kevin wang <kjw@rightsock.com> writes:

>  From Richard Stallman
> >       If a buffer flush fails with EAGAIN during
> >     printf, what should happen?
> > 
> > printf should retry, perhaps after a short sleep, and thus more or
> > less emulate the behavior with an ordinary blocking descriptor.
> 
> If you want to emulate blocking behaviour, then why not USE blocking
> behaviour?
> 
> It doesn't make any sense to make the default behaviour of non-blocking
> act like blocking.

Yes, but stdio can't handle non-blocking descriptors correctly, as I
described in a previous note.  I read RMS's suggestion as saying that
since stdio can't handle non-blocking descriptors, it will do least
harm by blocking on them.  Clearly using stdio on a non-blocking
descriptor is an error; however, as we see in the CVS case, sometimes
that error is difficult to avoid.

Ian



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