In article <5.1.0.14.2.20020423162613.031614d8@exchi01>, "Craig A. Berry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > OK, I've satisfied myself that Chuck is right about termination mailboxes; > the first reader gets the message and everyone else is out of luck, so we > definitely don't want to do what I did in my_waitpid(). Below is a slightly > revised version of Chuck's patch that removes the termination mailbox stuff > from my_waitpid. I've done a bit more clean-up of comments, whitespace, > unneeded braces and the like. test_pipe.pl runs fine with this. The test > suite can't tell the difference. So, I suggest we get this in if that's ok > with Chuck.
Okay by me, get it in! I've been messing around with the pipe torture test, and it's close to being able to join the test suite, although there's some seriously ugly hackery used to check whether the test responses are okay or not.
