Cygwin1.dll 1.5.19: race condition & deadlock with fifos
Brian Dessent
brian@dessent.net
Mon Jun 12 01:36:00 GMT 2006
Barry Kelly wrote:
> This code, without a delay, causes a deadlock and both active spawned
> bash processes (the forked one reading from the fifo and the
> backgrounded one) need to be killed explicitly:
>
> ---8<---
> ~/test-fifo$ rm fifo
> ~/test-fifo$ mkfifo fifo
> ~/test-fifo$ ((echo foo >fifo)&); echo Read: $(<fifo)
> --->8---
This works fine for me, no hang -- but I use a recent CVS build. Have
you tried the latest shapshot?
Brian
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