Hi all,
I'm trying to run a loop that repeatedly attempts to open a file until it
succeeds. The file is a named pipe in nonblocking mode, so the writer can
only connect after the reader has connected. (Perhaps there is some way to
determine this by stat'ing the pipe, but I don't know it yet.)
FYI, lsof confirms that there are indeed many many open connections to the
same FIFO:
Is there some other way to get at (and clean up) the file descriptor that
is left by System.Posix.IO.openFD after it throws an exception?
PingPipes 25115 rrnewton 124r FIFO8,2 0t0 25166171
On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 8:16 AM, Ryan Newton rrnew...@gmail.com wrote:
FYI, lsof confirms that there are indeed many many open connections to the
same FIFO:
Like all of the lowest-level I/O functions, openFD just gives you back an
integer, and the Fd type has no notion that there's an
