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Re: testsuite failure - 193 parallel execution


From: Paul Eggert
Subject: Re: testsuite failure - 193 parallel execution
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2010 14:17:46 -0700
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On 07/20/10 14:11, Eric Blake wrote:

> Hmm, maybe we should do more validation in the parent - not just read
> from the fifo, but validate that we actually read a token.  That way, we
> can ignore EOF (on the grounds that it may be a temporary condition, and
> that more children remain to be run) and only advance when the token we
> read back is non-empty.

That would be better than now, but taking a step back, why are we using
a named fifo at all?  Why not simply use a pipe?  Then we wouldn't have
to worry about all this after-you-Alphonse business.  Children could
write to the pipe when they're done.  The parent could read from the pipe
to find out when a child died.



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