I cannot reproduce pretty much any claim made in this thread. Unless PIO
does not mean System.IO.Posix.
I run mkfifo hello to create a named pipe. Then I run this program to
keep trying to open for writing, non-blocking (without anyone at the
read end initially):
import System.Posix.IO
Quoth Bryan O'Sullivan b...@serpentine.com,
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
Ah, thanks Bryan. I hadn't looked into it enough to realize that FDs are
just ints and not ForeignPtrs w/ finalizers.
Re: Donn's point. Well, yes, that would seem to be the case! But since I
think a linux bug is unlikely, I'm afraid that there's something else going
on here which I am not
