On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 10:39:21PM +0200, Bret S. Lambert wrote: > On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 04:25:39PM -0400, stan wrote: > > I am trying to get Amanda of a recent vintage working on 4.5. The developrs > > don't understand how writing to a blocking pipe can return EAGAIN. > > Should the write just block? > > Yes, it should, and a quick, about-to-go-to-bed readthrough of the > pipe write path shows that it shouldn't; is Amanda doing fcntls to > the fd? If so, check those to be absolutely sure that they're not > doing something hinkey. > Thanks for the quick reply.
I am trying to come up with a small demonstration peice of code to try to localize teh problem. -- One of the main causes of the fall of the roman empire was that, lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs.
