Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 2 Apr 1996 23:36:52 +0200 (MET DST) | From | Ronald Wahl <> | Subject | Re: new behavior of named pipes |
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On Tue, 2 Apr 1996, Ronald Wahl wrote:
> > Hi, > > I noticed a change in the code of named pipes in 1.3.81. Now xconsole > doesn't work properly if it reads from a named pipe. xconsole uses > XtAddInput (which uses select internally) to wait for data from the pipe. > A "tail -f" process writes data to the pipe. But nothing happens. > "strace -p" shows that xconsole hangs in a select call. Is there a patch > for xconsole available that work with kernels >=1.3.81? I wont patch the > kernel to use the SUNOS behavior if there is a better solution.
I found the problem by myself. I piped the output of "tail -f" through a awk script which closes the fifo after every line to flush the output.
ron
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