Re: Strange behaviour on 'read' from a pipe

[Andreas Schwab]

Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> writes:

> On 3/31/12 9:19 AM, Lluís Batlle i Rossell wrote:
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I have this script, that I've found to never write "DONE" in my systems, with
>> bash 4.0, 4.1, 4.2.. until 4.2-p20, my last test.
>> 
>> However, in irc some people told me it prints DONE for them. If I run the 
>> script with
>> bash under 'strace -f', it also prints DONE.
>
> It looks like a simple race condition.  I suspect that the scheduler
> arranges things so that the child process ends up exiting between the
> open and the read, but I don't have any real evidence to back it up.

Note that the opening of the pipe as part of the redirection in the
parent blocks until there is a writer, ie. until the child opens the
pipe.  Can this open call return EINTR?

Andreas.

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