Re: Possible race in pserver leading to broken pipe error?

[Steve McIntyre]

On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 07:23:43PM -0500, Derek Robert Price wrote:
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>Larry Jones wrote:
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>>Derek Robert Price writes:
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>>>Yep, it just needed fflushes.  Working patch attached.  Comments before
>>>I commit?
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>>fflush()/close() is a no-no -- you want fclose() instead.  Once you've
>>attached a stream to a file descriptor, you have to be very careful
>>about what you do to the file descriptor -- it's best to only use the
>>stream from then on.
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>Why, if you don't mind me asking?  I couldn't find a man page for a file
>descriptor flush - is there some way I could have flushed the pipe
>without attaching the stream?

fsync() or fdatasync() should do what you want here. Although you
_should_ be able to mix stream and fd operations normally - stdio is
meant to do the right thing AFAIK. But now I can't find the reference
I had that said so, of course.

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