About bidirectional named pipes (FIFO)

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Apr 12 10:51, Michael Haubenwallner wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm encountering problems with some multi-processing bash script
> that boils down to:
> 
> $ bash -c '
>     rm -f /tmp/testpipe.$$
>     trap "rm -f /tmp/testpipe.$$" EXIT
>     mkfifo /tmp/testpipe.$$
>     exec {fw}<>/tmp/testpipe.$$
>     exec {fr}<>/tmp/testpipe.$$
>     for x in {1..10}
>     do
>       (
>          trap "echo job $x pid \$BASHPID status \$? done >& $fw" EXIT
>          exit $x
>       ) &
>     done 
>     for z in {1..10}
>     do
>       read -u $fr
>       echo $REPLY
>     done
>     wait
> '
> 
> Agreed, POSIX does not define behaviour for using '<>' with fifos,
> but it works with AIX, *BSD, HP-UX, Interix, Linux, Solaris, ...

FIFOs in Cygwin have a couple of problems, especially bidirectional
FIFOs since they require a certain order of usage, otherwise they hang.
The implementation is lacking in more than one way and needs a good
old revamp.


Corinna

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