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bug #41907: Opening pipes RW with bash is blocking

Submitter:  Victor Berger <levans>
Submitted:  Wed 19 Mar 2014 03:32:22 PM UTC
   
 
Category:  Hurd Servers Severity:  3 - Normal
Priority:  5 - Normal Item Group:  Standard Compliance
Status:  None Privacy:  Public
Assigned to:  None Originator Name: 
Open/Closed:  Open Reproducibility:  Every Time
Size (loc):  None Planned Release:  None
Effort:  0.00
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Thu 20 Mar 2014 01:37:29 AM UTC, comment #1: 

I guess nobody thought about that case, and it's probably just bugged.

Samuel Thibault <sthibaul>
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Wed 19 Mar 2014 03:32:22 PM UTC, original submission:  

In a bash shell, creating a fifo and opening it as a file descriptor for both reading and writing like this :

mkfifo foo
exec 11<>foo

Hangs forever, and killing the call with ^C writes a "broken pipe" error.

On a Linux system, running something like

mkfifo foo
exec 11<>foo
echo "bar" >&11
cat <&11

works as expected, but this does not seem to be specified by POSIX (opening a pipe for both read and write is undefined behaviour).

Is making this call blocking a Hurd choice, or a bug ?

Victor Berger <levans>

 

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