RE: Blocking I/O & FIFOs

[Simon Marlow]

> I encountered the problem too a few days ago. It does not wait for
> another process to open the fifo, but returns EOF immediately.
> 
> It works only when another process opened the fifo for writing before
> we opened it for reading.
> 
> The problem happens in ghc-4.06 and 4.07. It worked OK in 4.04.

Hmmm.  Still can't reproduce this.  I tried 4.06 & 4.07 on both x86 and
Sparc.

Simon