Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Linux-1.3.81 | Date | Mon, 1 Apr 1996 11:56:24 PST | From | "Marty Leisner" <> |
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> Of course, sysvinit isn't necessarily meant to be portable, and as such > it's perfectly ok to depend on linux behavioural features. > > I don't like the SunOS (pre-81) behaviour, because some programs _want_ > to be able to know when the clients have gone away, and returning 1 for > select when there are no writers is the "logically" correct thing to do > anyway, when you look at what "read()" does. > > However, I don't feel strongly enough about this to not even consider > changing it back: I could do that. I'm not 100% sure I want to, though, > so I'd like some feedback from some more people. What do people think? > Especailly people who actually _use_ named pipes.. > > Linus >
Named pipes to operate the way BSD4.4 does.
Sun is broken in this regard.
-- marty leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com Member of the League for Programming Freedom
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