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How to know write end of FIFO has closed
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| sandeep_onsite@yahoo.com 2005-01-20, 7:54 am |
| Hi,
How to check write end of a FIFO has been closed?
My problem:
My Linux syslog daemon(syslogd) is sending the syslog messages to a
FIFO. my application daemon program keeps reading from FIFO using
blocking read() call.
When syslogd terminates, read() call always returns 0 bytes, indicating
EOF. But how do I confirm 0 bytes read was due to syslogd closing the
write end of the FIFO. Is there any way to check that write end is
closed.
Appreciate any help.
Thanks in advance,
Sandeep
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| Ian Stirling 2005-01-20, 5:58 pm |
| sandeep_onsite@yahoo.com wrote:
> Hi,
>
> How to check write end of a FIFO has been closed?
> My problem:
>
> My Linux syslog daemon(syslogd) is sending the syslog messages to a
> FIFO. my application daemon program keeps reading from FIFO using
> blocking read() call.
> When syslogd terminates, read() call always returns 0 bytes, indicating
> EOF. But how do I confirm 0 bytes read was due to syslogd closing the
> write end of the FIFO. Is there any way to check that write end is
> closed.
man errno
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| Barry Margolin 2005-01-21, 2:51 am |
| In article <1106220462.714260.102690@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>,
sandeep_onsite@yahoo.com wrote:
> Hi,
>
> How to check write end of a FIFO has been closed?
> My problem:
>
> My Linux syslog daemon(syslogd) is sending the syslog messages to a
> FIFO. my application daemon program keeps reading from FIFO using
> blocking read() call.
> When syslogd terminates, read() call always returns 0 bytes, indicating
> EOF. But how do I confirm 0 bytes read was due to syslogd closing the
> write end of the FIFO. Is there any way to check that write end is
> closed.
EOF on a pipe means that the write end was closed.
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Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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