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SubjectRe: A fifo and signal bug
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> On Fri, 20 Nov 1998, H.J. Lu wrote:
>
> > The testcase has just straight system calls. I don't think
> > glibc is involved here. It failed with libc 5.4.46, glibc
> > 2.0 and glibc 2.1 on linux 2.1.129.
>
> System information as in signature.
> Here's the ltrace output:
>

It is a kernel bug and it is kind of tricky to fix. If noone fixes
it, I will give it a try when I find time. Bascially the inode for
fifo should contain information on tasks which are waiting in
fifo_open, but are interrupted and will be restarted.

--
H.J. Lu (hjl@gnu.org)

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